| Walt Mankowski on 2 Jun 2007 02:21:31 -0000 |
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On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:28:42AM -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? If you have access to a mac, you don't even need acrobat. You can easily add comments to a pdf with preview.app, which is their standard tool for reading pdf's. Walt Attachment:
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