pdf edit again.
A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) Old books in PDF are normally scanned bitmaps. There are no characters or whatever therein; just pixels (EPS files). If you want to convert that to ASCII, you'd need to extract the EPS files (use something like pdfimages from the xpdf port), turn them into some bitmap format, and run some kind of OCR software on that. It's a slow, unreliable, error-prone and painful process though. Good luck! -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer, but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to ASCII. I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it thanks, gary PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 125 years old any say copyright.. *mumble* -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:39:14AM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) Old books in PDF are normally scanned bitmaps. There are no characters or whatever therein; just pixels (EPS files). If you want to convert that to ASCII, you'd need to extract the EPS files (use something like pdfimages from the xpdf port), turn them into some bitmap format, and run some kind of OCR software on that. It's a slow, unreliable, error-prone and painful process though. Good luck! Arrrgh (Charlie Brown). If it's that tortured, I'll forget it; thanks for the clue. Pretty sure this *was* just phot'd and scanned in. (Much be how amazon.com has thir zillions of boooks online. OCR'ing is serious work; I know that first hand.) gary -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer, but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to ASCII. I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it thanks, gary PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 125 years old any say copyright.. *mumble* The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work. The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to copyright. Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 17:54:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 02:39:14AM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:38:55 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) Old books in PDF are normally scanned bitmaps. There are no characters or whatever therein; just pixels (EPS files). If you want to convert that to ASCII, you'd need to extract the EPS files (use something like pdfimages from the xpdf port), turn them into some bitmap format, and run some kind of OCR software on that. It's a slow, unreliable, error-prone and painful process though. Good luck! Arrrgh (Charlie Brown). If it's that tortured, I'll forget it; thanks for the clue. Pretty sure this *was* just phot'd and scanned in. (Much be how amazon.com has thir zillions of boooks online. OCR'ing is serious work; I know that first hand.) If you need help on imperfectly OCR'ed texts, esp. on texts that are no longer copyrighted, there's always Distributed Proofreaders from the venerable Project Gutenberg: http://www.pgdp.net/ Good luck! -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:12:48AM +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer, but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to ASCII. I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it thanks, gary PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 125 years old any say copyright.. *mumble* The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work. The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to copyright. So then I could consier my HTML version of the philosophy books that friends and I OCR'd in. --Yes, it is a Lot of work... but as least for myself, i wouldn't be that crass. gary Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
