Timothy Swenson wrote:
I scanned this manual a few years ago and it was individual images.
It
might be my version that you have. It is possible to use OCR
software
to convert the images to text and then put that into a word
processor
and produce a final output. This will take time and may not be
exact
as the manual.
Using ImageMagick (open source), it is possible to take a number of
JPEG images and convert them into a PDF file. The PDF file will be
the same size as the JPEG images combined. Meaning, if you have 10
1
MEG JPEG images, the PDF will be 10 megs.
Tim Swenson
Ah, that might be it.
I have tried to OCR it but results were very poor on some pages I
tried, so I gave up. It would probably be easier to retype the manual
than correct all the errors it threw up.
What I was trying to do was group the pages into sections to make it
easier to download a few MB at a time rather than all 70 or so pages
individually. Nitro-PDF Express can combine pages, but not with the
protection flags set, which prevents manipulation of the original
files.
I didn't try to check if the bitmaps could be extracted from the PDFs
(not all protection levels were set), so I'll try this.
Dilwyn Jones
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