Re: edit pdf's
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 07:36:42PM +0000, Pedro M. (Morphix User) wrote:
> Dave Thayer escribi?:
>
> >On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:08:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >The imagemagick package contains 'convert' which can take pdf as input
> >perform various transformations including cropping. This might be a little
> >easier than pdf2ps+gimp
> >
> >dt
> >
> >
> >
> You can copy text using adobe acrobat reader (
> http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Acrobat ) and paste it to OpenOffice.
>
The OP mentioned using that but that it didn't work for non-english
scripts.
> Regards.
>
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