What do you mean by "it doesn't support straight PDF" ? The PDF I have is a pure image PDF i.e. from a scanner with NO OCR, just the image layer.
I can convert this to TIFF with good results using Ghostscript but I was hoping that Tesseract could handle image only PDF's Steve On Monday, April 29, 2013 10:27:07 PM UTC+12, Nick White wrote: > > > ALSO, I thought tesseract built with leptonica could handle any of the > formats > > leptonica can handle, and that include PDF. > > Nope, it doesn't support straight PDF. Best is to rip the images > out of the PDF first. If you have imagemagick, something like this > will do that: > > convert my-test.pdf out.png > > Nick > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
