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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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I have used scribus (http://www.scribus.net) in the past and has not
failed me yet.
Jon
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