Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote: If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Diego Queiroz queiroz.di...@gmail.com wrote: If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote: > If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to > transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has > to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an

OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Hello,I know this is a bit off-topic (well, COMPLETELY off-topic) but I ask in this newsl because I know there are some guys with international languages coding knoledges who could at least redirect me to some other community for this kind of problems.I need to copy some text (ok, I confess I

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Maybe Adobe performs some kind of OCR when you select a piece of text from a PDF document and tries to copy what it can infer onto the clipboard. In that case it might just not be as good with Greek as it is with English. When i tried to select a line, the selection highlight background

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Piero Faustini, This problem is very dificult to deal with. It is happening because the document is not using Unicode. It is using common ANSI format with an unusual font with Greek characters on place of the ones you are used to (the font is embedded on the PDF file). This is why you see bad

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy task). Thanks, I will try to contact the author himself and ask him for a

OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Hello,I know this is a bit off-topic (well, COMPLETELY off-topic) but I ask in this newsl because I know there are some guys with international languages coding knoledges who could at least redirect me to some other community for this kind of problems.I need to copy some text (ok, I confess I

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Maybe Adobe performs some kind of OCR when you select a piece of text from a PDF document and tries to copy what it can infer onto the clipboard. In that case it might just not be as good with Greek as it is with English. When i tried to select a line, the selection highlight background

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Piero Faustini, This problem is very dificult to deal with. It is happening because the document is not using Unicode. It is using common ANSI format with an unusual font with Greek characters on place of the ones you are used to (the font is embedded on the PDF file). This is why you see bad

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy task). Thanks, I will try to contact the author himself and ask him for a

OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Hello,I know this is a bit off-topic (well, COMPLETELY off-topic) but I ask in this newsl because I know there are some guys with international languages coding knoledges who could at least redirect me to some other community for this kind of problems.I need to copy some text (ok, I confess I

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Maybe Adobe performs some kind of OCR when you select a piece of text from a PDF document and tries to copy what it can infer onto the clipboard. In that case it might just not be as good with Greek as it is with English. When i tried to select a line, the selection highlight background

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

Piero Faustini, This problem is very dificult to deal with. It is happening because the document is not using Unicode. It is using common ANSI format with an unusual font with Greek characters on place of the ones you are used to (the font is embedded on the PDF file). This is why you see "bad

Re: OT: copy a modern greek-encoded text

> > If the translation of this document is very important, I think you have to > transliterate it by yourself or using an OCR tool (of course, this tool has > to be able to distinguish Greek characters, so it won't be an easy task). Thanks, I will try to contact the author himself and ask him