On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Alex Mandel wrote:
Anyone know a way to tap into a pdf programmatically to tell if it contains
text vs was scanned as an image?
ImageMagick has a great command for giving info about a format, and it
pipes really well. But come to think of it....
(shelling out)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] man -k pdf |grep info
pdfinfo (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
extractor (version 3.00)
(returned from shell)
Yeah see if you have pdfinfo on your machine.
Gandalf Parker
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