On 12/08/11 18:25, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 12Aug2011 12:09, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | On 12/08/11 12:04, Genes MailLists wrote:
> |> On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> |>> On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote:
> |>>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote:
> |>>> You could try this fedora app: pdftotext
> |>>>
> |>> As can be seen I tried several combinations, thought perhaps it
> |>> couldn't handle the file nam in quotes "Couier etc" but nothing
> |>> seems to do it?
> |>>
> |> Is it possible the PDF contains an image of the text rather than text
> |> itself ?
> |
> | I'm not sure, how would I tell? It's an attachment to an html
> | cover letter. The Fedora default app, disolays it with no
> | complaints.
>
> Is it ridiculously large for the amount of text? Does it seem to have
> scanner artifacts in the text - "graininess" if you peer closely, fuzzy
> text instead of perfectly formed letters (i.e. a picture of text instead
> of text rendered by your computer from a font)?
>
> Personally I use pdftohtml to convert PDFs (then an HTML-to-text
> pipeline on the end of that). Possibly pdftotext does exactly that
> anyway. Of course it achieves nothing for me if the PDF is a scan.
>
> Cheers,
It's a scan.
pdftohtml seems to have produced jpeg as well as html files.
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 321444 Aug 12 18:37 Courier-1_1.jpg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 309493 Aug 12 18:37 Courier-2_1.jpg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 461 Aug 12 18:37 Courier.html
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bobg bobg 244 Aug 12 18:37 Courier_ind.html
The html files display as a couple of boxes, the jpegs are sharp
reproductions of the text and can be converted with gocr to
text. But the quality of that text leaves much to be desired. I
might be able to work it over with a dictionary to fill in the
missing words, missing being words that appear as gibberish.
Thanks, I'll have a go at that later.
Bob
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