Re: Extension does not run

[Stephen Cox]

Dear Apache,
My son (he runs support for Mode7games) told me off for not giving you 
enough detail, sorry.
This laptop runs Vista (is that the problem?). Windows update is on. I use 
OpenOffice and have updated to Apache OpenOffice 4. I found the extension by 
clicking the extension jigsaw piece on the OpenOffice front page. I chose 
the OpenOffice 4 version of the extension (Oracle PDF Import Extension) and 
it does not offer any versions for different Windows so the choice is pretty 
straightforward. So downloading it is OK, and unpacking it. I just need help 
installing it/getting it to run. Where can I find user information for that 
please?
Oh and I filed it in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\Extensions\OCR 
(Extensions and OCR are new folders I made specially for this).
Is it even the right software for what I want to do? I want to edit a 
document my wife made initially in Word, then she hand drew some diagrams 
onto a printout and scanned it into a pdf. I want to do a bit more editing 
to prepare it for the editor, so initially I thought I could rescan it into 
our own scanner, an HP3050 J611a, but I could not find how to access OCR 
with it, it might not be offered, which is a bit strange, so I then thought 
to see if OpenOffice could help, can you?
Thanks
Stephen D Cox
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From: Stephen Cox stephen@draytonstleonard.co.uk
To: api@openoffice.apache.org
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:49 AM
Subject: Extension does not run


How can I get the PDF OCR extension to run? I downloaded it, unzipped it and
looked for how to install it. NO INSTRUCTIONS FOUND. Tried the only exe file
I could see, xpdfimport.exe , but NOTHING HAPPENED. Tried restarting this
laptop and tried again, but still nothing. Looked for text file user guide
but none found.
Why don't you make it possible for an ordinary guy to use this?
I'm trying to edit a document my wife has written for our local paper and
want to get it in to the editor before deadline. Please help.
Stephen D Cox


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Extension does not run

[Stephen Cox]

How can I get the PDF OCR extension to run? I downloaded it, unzipped it and 
looked for how to install it. NO INSTRUCTIONS FOUND. Tried the only exe file 
I could see, xpdfimport.exe , but NOTHING HAPPENED. Tried restarting this 
laptop and tried again, but still nothing. Looked for text file user guide 
but none found.
Why don't you make it possible for an ordinary guy to use this?
I'm trying to edit a document my wife has written for our local paper and 
want to get it in to the editor before deadline. Please help.
Stephen D Cox 


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Re: Extension does not run

[Andreas Säger]

Hi Stephen,

 http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/ocr-helper


Are we talking about this one? Yes?

With a working browser (no Microsoft Internet Explorer) this link leads
me to a downloaded file named ocr-1.4.0.oxt which is a zip file indeed
but with .oxt as file name suffix. I can simply double-click that file
in order to install this extention.

Since you seem to use a broken internet browser which constantly renames
downloads for no good reason other than beeing zip archives, you can
install the downloaded and renamed ocr-1.4.0.zip like this:

Option a): Rename the ocr-1.4.0.zip to ocr-1.4.0.oxt and double-click.
Since MS Windows since 1995 hides well known name suffices for no good
reason, you may prefer
Option b): Office-menu:ToolsExtension Manager... button [Add...] and
point to the downloaded file however it is named. You may even install
it via FileOpen...

Remove the files you unzipped manually. They don't do anything at all.

The aforementioned no good reasons basically relate to the matter of
fact that MS fights an undeclared war on the hard disks of their customers.

Greetings,
Andreas

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