heck, send it to me ... i have the "read" adobe acrobat for mac os x, & i think one of the features is "extract text".
scott Robert Citek wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ -- R. Scott Granneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books Read the Download Squad Blog @ http://www.downloadsquad.com "There are more fools in the world than there are people." ---Heinrich Heine _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
