Re: [PLUG] OCR in linux

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

> I have a .pdf file which I'd like to convert to text.
> I apt-got a package called gocr (and gocr-gtk, a frontend).
> gocr wants .pbm files, so I converted the .pdf to .pbm with
> ImageMagick, then used gocr on it.


I suspect that recent versions of KWord will do a better single pass 
importation of PDFs than the method you're using.  If you have a recent 
version of KDE, you likely have a relatively recent of KOffice to go 
with it, merely select import and try it on the PDF in question.  It 
works a lot better than most of the standalone programs.
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