| Art Alexion on 14 Jun 2007 16:36:27 -0000 |
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On Thursday, 14 June 2007 12:07, Jon Nelson wrote: > 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? > I have used scribus (http://www.scribus.net) in the past and has not > failed me yet. This sounded promising as PDFEdit seems to have trouble saving the edited files. Unfortunately, for me, it failed. The documents that I needed to edit are contracts. The person who sent them to me faxed them to himself and then saved the fax images as PDF. The result is that the PDF file has no text, only images of text. Perhaps this is the problem with scribus. Anyway, scribus does not seem to import a PDF directly. I first had to convert it using pdf2ps, and then import the resulting postscript file. Scribus could not import the images from the postscript file. For this particular document, I used PDFEdit and the workaround I mentioned earlier. I think the best solution in the future is to extract the images using pdfimages and then paste them into OpenOffice as suggested by Bhaskar. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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