Robert Derman wrote:
IMHO all that is really needed is a program to convert PDFs to ODF files. Once they are in the ODF form, OOo can then edit them.
Yeah, but "all that" can be quite a tall order depending on the document. The main problem is that a lot of information is discarded in converting to PDF. The only thing the format is concerned with is the appearance of the finished page. So stuff like multiple columnar text, headers, footers, page numbers, captions, etc. all require some level of AI to reconstruct properly. If you have ever tried to cut/paste from a PDF that has magazine/newspaper columns you will see what I mean. You normally have to do this column by column because the information that the text flows from the bottom of one column to the top of the next has been lost.
In the end, the problem is only marginally easier than trying to do the same thing with input from a scanner. The only thing you don't have to do is actually recognize the characters.
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