What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to create a pdf or extract information from a scanned form? If you're trying to create a pdf and you're only talking about a handful of forms, it's going to be easier to create them using something like Acrobat Professional. If you really want to create a pdf from a scanned image and/or you want to extract information from a scanned form that's had information entered on a it, you need to research OCR forms processing, like A2iA or Mitek Systems products. I don't think any product will automatically create the pdf, it will only help you extract information to build some sort of template from. You could then use iText to create a pdf from the template. Would be very challanging.
----- Original Message ----- From: "1T3XT info" <[email protected]> To: "Post all your questions about iText here" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] pdf > alex wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to generate an editable pdf from a scanned pdf. I want the > > program to recognize all text fields and check boxes in the scanned pdf > > and convert each of them in to corresponding controls. How can I achieve > > this using iText? > > You can't! You have a raster image in your PDF. > iText doesn't OCR raster images! > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
