Re: [PLUG] pdf to text

[Antony P Joseph <antony@panathara.org>]

Hi

  Here is another one
   pdfimages (1)        - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
(version 3.01)
   xsane is very nice utility to use with many different scanners. It
can OCR and save as image of any format including pdf. It  usually comes
with any Linux distribution
 http://www.xsane.org/

With regards
Antony
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 11:11 -0400, Antony P Joseph wrote:
> 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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