Re: Reading a pdf text file
Re: Reading a pdf text file
- Subject: Re: Reading a pdf text file
- From: Richard Smykla <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:49:03 -0500
Stefan,
Actually, there *is* a command line tool for OCR that will run on Mac
OS X. If you do a search over at sourceforge.net, you'll see there's
one listed called 'gocr' (current version 0.39-11). There's more
information and examples of output at the developer's Web site here:
<http://jocr.sourceforge.net/index.html>. I tested it on a scan of
some business cards and get about 80% accuracy (not very good) if the
scan is of reasonable clarity and unskewed. It can handle tiff
images, but converts them to .pbm format before doing the actual OCR.
Of course, you'll need the Developers' Tools to compile the thing.
Can't hurt to try, I suppose. . .
Rick
Stefan wrote:
if i get a digital fax (saved on a server as a .pdf) and want it to
be transformed into plan text the only way i found is to use
Omnipage, anyone have any other experiance pr angles to attack the
problem ?
--
Rick Smykla
email@hidden
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