Bug#502183: ITP: ExactImage -- A fast, modern and generic image processing library
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 12:56:35 you wrote:
> 2008/10/14 Robert Wohlrab <robert.wohlrab@gmx.de>:
> > hocr2pdf (creates searchable pdfs from image with the
> > help of an ocr tool which will display the original image and not the
> > ocred lookalike of the original image). Bindings to perl,
>
> Except that it can't, because the OCR tool is Cuneiform and ExactImage
> requires a patched version. Neither Cuniform nor the patch is in
> Debian ATM.
Another ocr tool with hocr support is also possible - but i don't know any
other ocr tool in debian with hocr support.
> Cuneiform is ITP:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496264
>
> But as I understand it, the patch is unlikely to be accepted in its
> current form, and will need work upstream to implement the extra
> command line switches required:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Creating-searchable-PDF-with-ExactImage-0.6-td1951610
>9.html
The patch is in upstream (in a new form) and cuneiform is packaged with this
patch in mentors.
Regards
Robert
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