What you need to do is identify open source software that does OCR 
specifically. Rails doesn't include image or PDF manipulation itself, but can 
be integrated with other tools that do. E.g. Rmagick and Prawn.

These Ruby gems look promising:

https://github.com/dannnylo/rtesseract

https://github.com/gkovacs/pdfocr

Goodluck,
Walter

On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:44 PM, rajeevsharma86 <rajeevsharm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> is there no way ???
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:00 AM, rajeevkannav <rajeevsharm...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> 
> I have too many scanned notes i need to convert them into text and then user 
> may download that as pdf  , How it can be done in RoR
> 
> Please help
> 
> Thanks in advance :) 
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