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When I last checked most readers/viewers will select and search text in tesseract generated pdfs. Many times the highlighting of selection is incorrect but if you copy and paste all recognized text should be there. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:51 PM 'Eike Stepper' via tesseract-ocr < [email protected]> wrote: > I found out that my attempt to find the text in the PDF with Notepad was > too naive. > Instead I installed the "A-PDF Text Extractor" tool and indeed I could > extract all the recognized text from the PDF. > > But the text is not selectable with the broadly used PDF viewer > "PDF-XChange", > nor does Windows Search find any of the recognized words in the PDF. > > So my question remains, am I doing something wrong? > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/78d57772-13ca-4aa4-891e-0d0880e7dc01%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/78d57772-13ca-4aa4-891e-0d0880e7dc01%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ____________________________________________________________ भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/CAG2NduU2OzueOtb3XBQjO_AVhYpjgPk_Xq7D0bSpYqO4HqktHQ%40mail.gmail.com.
