On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:08:58PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:01:16PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > > > thanks for the flues folks. pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did* > > already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well > > for me, i odn't think; these are scanned-in texts from the jstor > > journal collection, and it's important I keep the pages in order... > > > > as ,er, someone mentioned earlier (don't have the thread in front of > > me at the moment), a complex process involving gimp and pdftops seems > > to be the best bet, but it's insanely labour-intensive for long > > documents, so I may forego the whole project. thx all though. > > > > Well, if you have scanned all the pages in about the same position, > and you can establish reassonably well the coordinates of the crop, > you can write a script that does all the work in one step (containing > all the inner steps). > The imagemagick package contains 'convert' which can take pdf as input perform various transformations including cropping. This might be a little easier than pdf2ps+gimp
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