Your OCR program should handle a PDF just like a GIF. The Windows OCR programs do that anyway. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh@xxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:26 PM Subject: converting graphics on a text console -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have any advice for me? I have a text-only system here, no X or Gnome. Someone scanned a document for me, and sent it as a pdf file. I use pdftotext of course, but evidently the pdf file contains only image data, so pdftottext just gave me garbage. Maybe. At least it looks like garbage. So what now? I can use gocr or ocrad to try pulling text out of the image, except I somehow need to convert the image data in the pdf file to gif first. Has anyone done anything like this in a text console? I have successfully used OCR software on .gif files, but how do I get from pdf to gif? Man, it's tough persuading folks that an image of a document that appears perfectly readable on a graphics screen is not really text of the sort I can handle in a text console. Thanks for any advice. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (99% of Full) My new web site location is at: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGrjt30maTgpPXM9cRAlJhAJ4x6iqFl1ZGdtXS8E3OdekSnkchTgCfVnAB 5uttsgVVghRt039ItY1zeko= =2sdi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
