On 27/04/2005, at 02:46, Wanda Nall wrote:
I was thinking that with Openoffice 3.0, there was OCR software so that one could download a pdf such as one created in Adobe Writer, and be able to manipulate and edit the document. Is this true?
For most PDF documents you don't need OCR to edit them. You can already do that with Acrobat Pro (on Windows) and Koffice (on Linux), although both are rather limited and dependent on the internal quality of the file.
But yeah, that sure would be a nice addition for OOo :-)
I filed an RFE for this very feature on Jun 3 2004 (Issue 29855) - see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29855
The issue seems to have got buried/lost because nothing has happened since, and you are the first person since then to raise the issue on this list. I guess that goes to show that either OOo users aren't generally big users of OCR, they're happy with the cut and paste method, or... the OCR users gave up on OOo
Incidentally I also filed an RFE at the same time in respect of the counterintuitive nature of the scanning interface for graphics (see http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29854) with the same result. Maybe the reasons for this are the same as for OCR :-)
Jeff ----------------------- Windows are a pane
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