From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples@aim.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Anyone able to OCR a PDF file?
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:38:12 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66B84B1D49004B7D8DCE9C34AF6CB22E@layla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120103164040.GA12039@sonata.rednote.net>
I have personally used cuneiform for linux mostly. I cannot remmeber if it
can natively manage PDF files (possibly, certainly it can do more than
TIFF), however you could use a conversion tool (memory seems to say
pdf2tiff).
Michael Whapples
-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:40 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Anyone able to OCR a PDF file?
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? In
particular I'm going to be swamped with graphical PDF files this year.
Printing these just to scan them seems both wasteful and inefficient.
I know people do this on other OS's. Has anyone suggestions on how to do
this in Linux?
All suggestions greatly appreciated.
Janina
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Chair, Open Accessibility janina@a11y.org
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