Re: PDF to Text
| From: | Ray Hauge | Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:21:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PDF to Text | ||
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On Thursday 20 April 2006 19:23, Richard Lynch wrote:
> Actually, it's "possible" just bloody difficult.
>
> You're looking into a topic known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
>
> One OS project for this is:
> GOCR (aka JOCR)
> It's GOCR on freshmeat and JOCR on sourceforge because they name they
> wanted was "taken" by another project. :-(
>
> A commercial product known as OmniPages is probably the "best"
> solution, unfortunately.
>
Thanks for the info. It makes sense that the scanner puts makes the image and
puts that on the PDF. I'll have to look into GOCR, or just scrap the idea I
had. Luckily I'm still just in the planning stage and we haven't figured out
how all the processes are going to work :)
Thanks again,
--
Ray Hauge
Programmer/Systems Administrator
American Student Loan Services
www.americanstudentloan.com
1.800.575.1099