making PDFs workable

[JD Austin]

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
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net>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 <danceswithcrows at usa.net
> >> <mailto:danceswithcrows at usa.net>> 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 <m.jarvis at cox.net <mailto:m.jarvis at cox.net>>
> >>      > 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
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