Jon Drews wrote:
> What you can do is open the scanned *.pnm image in GIMP, convert it to
> the native *.xcf format, then save the *.xcg as a *.ps and finally use
> ps2pdf (ps2pdf13) to convert it to pdf. No wthis does not always work
> but it's a lot easier than the existing OCR software for Linux.

Actually, the original is a PDF.  What happened is that this person
scanned a document, turned it into a PDF, and then e-mailed it to me.
The problem of OCR'ing the document is similar to OCR'ing this WIPO PDF:

http://tinyurl.com/2fcddp

That's too bad that OCR for linux doesn't work too well.

Regards,
- Robert

 
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