Rich Shepard wrote: > An alternative to what others suggested is to use pdftk to burst the pdf > file into individual pages. You can reassemble it in a new order if you > wish, or use 'convert' to copy them to a different graphic format. >
That sounds like it would be useful for a different kind of pdf file, one with multiple pages. Mine are two separate files, each with a single image of 1/2 of a newspaper page. However, it's good to know about another tool for doing things my way when confronted with a pdf. > You can also take the separate pages and run them through jocr (the > optical character recognition software), clean that up, and do whatever you > wish with the resulting text file. > I do plan on trying that at some point. I may have to cut the images into a dozen or more pieces to make it work, but it might be worth the trouble. Thanks for the ideas. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
