Re: edit pdf's

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> 
> thanks for the flues folks.  pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did*
> already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well
> for me, i odn't think;  these are scanned-in texts from the jstor
> journal collection, and it's important I keep the pages in order...  
> 
> as ,er, someone mentioned earlier (don't have the thread in front of
> me at the moment), a complex process involving gimp and pdftops seems
> to be the best bet, but it's insanely labour-intensive for long
> documents, so I may forego the whole project.  thx all though.  
> 

Well, if you have scanned all the pages in about the same position,
and you can establish reassonably well the coordinates of the crop,
you can write a script that does all the work in one step (containing
all the inner steps).