Haven't tried this but you can probably use cuneiform, and exactimage to create text searchable PDFs from image only PDFs and Tiffs; you can do it via a live cd: http://www.watchocr.com/ On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > As noted earlier, none of this helps if the PDF is just a big image. > > The PDF referenced below is an image exported from Xara Xtreme Pro > (graphics software for Windows), and every test I can run on it indicates > is a big image file; no native text to copy. > > I don't run Adobe reader, it may have some added specialization (e.g. OCR) > to allow text to be copied. > > > > On 09/11/2012 04:33 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: > > I think I remember that you were running KDE.. If so, the Okular PDF > viewer will allow you to copy and paste, you just need to be in selection > mode (Don't polute your KDE install with evince). Just click the > "selection" icon or pick "tools -> selection" from the menu (ctrl-3 will do > it too). > > > > You can also load the "libreoffice-pdfimport" package and load PDFs > directly into openoffice. > > > > Also inkscape can do a VERY good to percfect job of loading a PDF, the > quality being mostly dependent on if you have all the fonts installed that > the PDF is using, but it can only handle a single page at a time. > > > > If you have been doing any of that with no luck, you might have a PDF > where the text is actually a graphics and nothing will allow you to copy > and paste text in it. You best bet for those is to extract the graphics > out of the PDF and see if one of the OCR software packages can turn it into > text for you. > > > > Brian Cluff > > > > On 09/11/2012 02:20 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> Well, the reason seems to be that 'document viewer is the default. I > >> jusat d/l evince and can't seem to make it the default PDGF viewer. I > >> right click on a pdf>open with>evince but it keeps opening with Document > >> Viewer! > >> :-)~MIKE~(-: > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Matt Graham >> > wrote: > >> > >> > Michael Havens wrote: > >> >> HOw can I make it so I can copy-n-paste the text from > >> >> a pdf into a oo document? > >> From: Mark Jarvis > > >> > The Foxitpro PDF reader allows text to be marked and copied. > >> > Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows. I don't know if > >> > there's a Linux PDF reader that has that capability. > >> > >> AFAICT, evince (the PDF reader that's standard for GNOME-based > >> distros) will > >> allow you to copy and paste text from PDFs as well. Also remember > >> that some > >> PDF readers have multiple tools available, and the default tool > might be > >> "scroll/drag pages" not "select text". > >> > >> Also also remember that if the PDF doesn't actually contain text, > >> but is a > >> pile of images, then there will be no text to select. The PDF that > >> you're > >> trying to look at doesn't have that problem, but for some reason, > >> evince won't > >> let you copy the text. Acrobrat Reader will. No, I don't know why > >> either.... > >> > >> -- > >> Matt G / Dances With Crows > >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to > see > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >