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Hi
gocr (1) - command line text recognition tool
gocr.tcl (1) - Graphical frontend to gocr
gtk-ocr (1) - Graphical frontend to gocr
This is the gnu ocr program. I have never used.
xsane got an OCR entry in the men. I have never used.
pdftoppm (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Pixmap
(PPM) converter (version 3.01)
With regards
Antony
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 09:28 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> I need to make comments on a PDF I received. I first tried using pdftotext,
> but found that the text in PDF was a scanned image, so pdftotext found no
> text to convert.
>
> I am thinking of two possible solutions -- neither of which may exist.
>
> Many years ago, I used win-based fax software that scanned fax images for text
> and did an OCR. Does anything like that -- the ability to scan and OCR a pdf
> or extracted image -- exist for Linux?
>
> The other alternative is the ability to add comments as is possible with the
> full acrobat windows/mac product. Are there any tools available for Linux
> that allow commenting?
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