On 1/30/07, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Drews wrote:
> > What you can do is open the scanned *.pnm image in GIMP, convert it to
> > the native *.xcf format,
> 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

Robert:

 If you have a *.pdf then you can use man (1) pdftotext or pdftohtml.
You can also open the *.pdf in GIMP, save it as a native *.xcf file,
and then excise the image. The image then can be embedded in the *.odt
document, along with the text, that was processed by pdftotext.

-- 
Kind regards,
Jonathan
 
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