[PLUG] pdf, postscript and text

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Aaron Burt wrote:

> Totally different PS generators, thus different PS code.  Differences in
> graphics rendering and compression become significant here.

  Aha! That makes sense; didn't think of it.

> From the sound of it (beeeg PS files, no text) these are PDFs containing
> bitmaps of printed or scanned output.  In other words, you don't have
> text, just pictures of text.  Does the text select tool in acroread work?

  No! And that threw me for a loop. I thought that I could cut and paste if
I couldn't disassemble.

> Sounds like you're stuck with extracting bitmaps (GS can print to TIFF and
> other formats) and feeding 'em through an OCR program.

  Oy, vey! Anyone have gocr or jocr running well? What I'll need to do is
convert _all_ these multi-hundred page documents into something I can use.
Groan!

Thanks, Aaron,

Rich

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