On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:42:41 -0700 Thomas Taylor <[email protected]> wrote about Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to import printed form into writer in Linux?: > 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 >
After further testing with the original PDF and a couple more that I scanned and using two PDFs from other sources, it looks like the problem is with the PDF that Xsane generates, not LibreOffice opening a PDF. The two from other sources opened properly (one read only due to password) but each of the PDFs from Xsane error-ed out. Consequently I've sent a message with attached PDF file to the Xsane maintainer asking for his help in this matter. 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
