Re: How to extract text from PDF?
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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20:
>>> technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to
>>> txt.
>> There have already been some useful suggestions.
>>
>> One more: on kpdf, the right mouse button selects a rectangle whose
>> contents can be copied to the clipboard. Useful for pasting small parts
>> of text to other applications. For full pages/documents try pdftotext.
>
> Likewise xpdf and evince. Or the command-line pdftotext . They all use
> the same basic PDF library (xpdf / popller), so they'll probably handle
> PDFs rather similarly.
>
This is true when the pdf is mixed of text with pictures but not when
the pdf is only pictures -
For example if you used gscan2pdf without gocr.
In this case you need to run gocr on each page .
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Could you at least use man ?
Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) || bsh83.blogspot.com
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