From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from opera.rednote.net (opera.rednote.net [66.228.34.147]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6394DC1A0C8 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:34:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from sonata.rednote.net (sonata.rednote.net [IPv6:2001:470:8:4ef:216:d3ff:fecc:ec01]) by opera.rednote.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q03HY5nX008167 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:34:05 GMT X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.3 opera.rednote.net q03HY5nX008167 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=rednote.net; s=default; t=1325612045; bh=5rLETKCmeeA/wVEQyIy+aXqHrHgRbnuQ9OcZR5PJL9c=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:In-Reply-To; b=KkelQCdyEUfugolXT9uclcuHpe1RmqG7LQhLYA0WRW4rkTgEum5Rup33z3bKtvXfL OunbcHkW128EgWqkzkhRzn1hCQ9saLENoYmKuEMx+hEbTe6ZdSw2y6xO4u7o/KQ8PC icXkczTBX7BHmdpLuqCcsx3cmnMj/uh5sDzoqVCc= Received: from sonata.rednote.net (sonata.rednote.net [127.0.0.1]) by sonata.rednote.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q03HY4lw018545 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:34:04 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by sonata.rednote.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q03HY4Td018544 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:34:04 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: sonata.rednote.net: janina set sender to janina@rednote.net using -f Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 12:34:04 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Anyone able to OCR a PDF file? Message-ID: <20120103173404.GD12043@sonata.rednote.net> References: <20120103164040.GA12039@sonata.rednote.net> <20120103171255.GB4267@type.famille.thibault.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20120103171255.GB4267@type.famille.thibault.fr> X-Operating-System: Linux sonata.rednote.net 3.1.6-1.spk.fc16.x86_64 X-PGP-Key: http://rednote.net/JaninaSajka_gpg_key.html User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:34:04 -0000 Thanks, Samuel! I think that will work nicely in a little script I can quickly concoct. Janina Samuel Thibault writes: > Janina Sajka, le Tue 03 Jan 2012 11:40:45 -0500, a écrit : > > Has anyone figured out how to get one of the Linux OCR engines (like > > tesseract) to accept a graphical file (other than .tiff) as input? > > You can use imagemagick's convert tool to convert from .pdf to .tiff: > > convert test.pdf test.tiff > > Samuel > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org Linux Foundation http://a11y.org Chair, Protocols & Formats Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/wai/pf World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)