On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Jim <mickeyboa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/06/2010 05:19 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 22:01 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: >> >>> I have a scanned pdf of a very old document which was typewritten >>> about half a century ago. The scanned copy is noisy and the letters >>> are far from clear. The text can be made out (mostly) by eye, but it >>> is 19 pages long and I would like to OCR it to get a digitised text to >>> save the eye strain and lots of typing. >>> >> You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. >> >> If you are having difficulty reading the scan yourself, then you're >> probably out of luck getting the computer to OCR it for you. >> >> Your best bet is to retype it. It's only 19 pages so it shouldn't take >> too long to type it again. You'll spend far more time fiddling around >> (unsuccessfully) with OCR stuff than it will take to retype it anyway. >> > Scanning a Text doc is not going to Save properly in Xsane/Linux, even > if you use "gocr" > Scanning and "Saving Text" is broken. > > As far as how a text looks on your terminal after scanning, It always > looks bad. You have to Save As" to get good finish product, and again > "Save As" Text is broken in Xsane. only Images turn out after "Saving" Can you use the "copy/paste" (Select the text and Edit->Copy) pipe? (I suppose I should grab the current ocr downloads and give them a try. I have to say, it seems like about four years ago, all the open source ocr projects just stopped moving.) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
