On 19/07/2011 14:58, Bernhard Haslinger wrote: > Is there a way to check with the iText library if a existing pdf has a ocr > layer or not? iText can parse PDFs into plain text, provided that the text doesn't consist of image. - if you use iText to parse your PDFs, and there's no text; then the PDF doesn't have an OCR layer. - if you use iText to parse your PDFs, and most pages have text; then it probably has an OCR layer. Hope this helps.
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