Re: [PLUG] OCR in linux

[Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com>]

Gregson Helledy wrote:
> I have a .pdf file which I'd like to convert to text.
How about...
$ apt-get install gs-common
$ pdf2ps $FILE.pdf $FILE.ps
$ ps2ascii $FILE.ps $FILE.txt

> 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.
>
> What I got from my 25-page .pdf file (which is text, not images)
> was a 1.7K text file of garbage.
What did the .pdm look like?  Perhaps the text of your .pdf did not 
survive that translation.




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