On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:41:41 +0200 Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]> wrote about [libreoffice-users] Re: How to import printed form into writer in Linux?: > Le 01/06/12 09:32, Thomas Taylor a écrit : > > Hi Thomas, > > > Are there any add-ons that would allow it to work with PDF files? Is there > > documentation related to this functionality? > > > > The pdfimport extension (if at all installed by default with openSuse) > will only open the PDFs fed from your scanner as a bitmapped image in Draw. > > Your forms as scanned with your Brother MFC will usually be supplied in > one of the following formats : > > - PDF > - TIFF Group 4 > - JPG (2000 ?) > - PNG (if you're lucky) > - BMP > > > All of those are bitmap formats. The only way your form can be > transformed into something useful is through the use of an > OCR/vectorisation programme. > > I don't know of any worthwhile, free, Linux-based solutions to your > problem. Yes, there are opensource OCR programs for Linux, but on the > whole, I have found them to be woefully lacking, and most certainly > cannot handle form objects, tick boxes, and the like. It is just about > all they can do to read text in English. > > There may be "pay" solutions out there, I don't know, and haven't looked > in a while. > > As far as I know, you won't find anything that will work directly with > LibreOffice, as in, transform your scanned form into something editable > and changeable within LO, unless the PDF output you provide from your > scanner/ocr application can supply PDF-conform embedded objects that can > be read by the pdfimport extension, in which case they will open in Draw > (which is OK, but not brilliant when you've got lots of text to edit > since virtually each line appears in a separate text bounding box). > > Maybe others here can suggest something more appropriate/functional. > Good luck with your search. > > Alex > >
Thank you Jay, Tom, and Alexander. Both Writer and Draw produce an error "General I/O Error" when trying to import pdf, tiff, and png. The PDF Import extension is installed but has a problem, possibly in the SuSE version. I'm going to delete the SuSE version and build from scratch dirrect from Sourceforge. Again, thanks for your help. Tom -- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine Tom Taylor - retired penguin AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 12.1x86_64 openSUSE 12.2x86_64 KDE 4.7.2, FF 7.0 KDE 4.8.1, FF 10.0 claws-mail 3.8.0 registered linux user 263467 linxt-At-comcast-DoT-net -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
