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Re: anyone have software to OCR a PDF?

Subject: Re: anyone have software to OCR a PDF?
From: sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:13:16 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 8, 6:39 am, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a PDF file containing source code for an apple II program,
> does anyone have the software to convert this PDF into text?  the
> text within the PDF is just a scan, so it is in graphic (pixel)
> format.
>
> Rich

I recently wanted to OCR some Basic source from the UTA2 PDF.
After searching for reviews of open source offerings and trying
a couple, tesseract, altough primitive, gave the best results.
Still quite a bit of hand editing though.

Here's a good tutorial applicable to any supported platform.
It includes instructions for prepping the page with GIMP.
http://www.howtoforge.com/ocr_with_tesseract_on_ubuntu704
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Cheers,
Nick.

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