On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:03:23PM +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > > Can anyone in the forum read Yiddish? > > No, but I would probably understand (so-so) it if it was read to me. I > probably also could make sense if it was latin transliterated. > > There is though a problem with PDFs - I know of no way of scraping a non > ASCII PDF. usually "copy" turns up garbage.
I've had modest success with PDF files that contained scanned images
of documents by using GhostScript to print to a tif file then processing
that via the Tesseract scanner engine. It does a fairly good job, but
unfortunately the results still need quite a bit of cleaning up. Worst
problem is that Tesseract doesn't know about page formatting, it just
outputs text in whatever order it sees it. I just this week learned of
a tool called "unpaper" which can do a lot of cleanups on pages between
the cration of the image and the OCR process, but haven't yet tried it.
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But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
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