On 6/5/06, RBW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I had another form to fill in and I did use the printout then scan back
as JPG to modify the export back out as PDF proceedure but I was
thinking instead of sending "n" number of fillied in PDF files why not
concateneate them into one PDF with multiple pages... After all my goal
is to make filling in PDF forms zero monetary cost AND make the result a
quality PDF but also a no brainer/no questions for the WinDoze user on
the other end. I found this web page with an interesting discussion of
the problem and a response that has a shell script that does the job.
One thing the different methods do not seem to do when concatenating PDF
files is preserve the ability to search and so forth. For most forms
this capability doesn't need to be included with returned forms I
suspect. However it would be a nice capability if you had the need to
concatenate PDF's for your own use such as command summaries of various
types, etc. Does anyone know what it would take to retain, after
modification, features like searching PDF's short of Adobe software?
By the time you have gone through a printout and scan, you have lost
all of the original text information, and just have a bunch of bits
that look like text. There isn't anything to search for. The next
logical step in the procedure would be OCR to turn the bunch of bits
back into text. I suspect that a lot will be lost in the successive
transformations.
I think that people are actually doing this (scan -> OCR) to resurrect
old computer documentation, but couldn't give you a reference offhand.
carl
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