On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 8:30:53 AM UTC-4 Scaly Green Orc wrote:
Yes, it's a regular PDF. But most (not always all) of the text is borked. Try to copy/paste text from it and you'll see. I looked around for solutions to salvage it, and it seemed like OCR was what was most consistently recommended in such cases. I need to treat a stack of these programmatically. Although cut & paste in the browser (and Acrobat Reader) doesn't work, here's the beginning of what gets extracted by pdftotext -layout APPROCHE A VUE Transport public à la demande ANNONAY Common carriage on request Visual approach Centre hospitalier/Hospital 16 JUN 22 AD 3 APP 01 ALT : 1364 (49 hPa) LAT : 45 14 30 N VAR : 2° E (20) LONG : 004 39 57 E FIS : LYON Info 135.525 EN TERRASSE / TERRACED COM : TROPHUS 3/TRAVIATA 3 : 85.575 vers/to St Etienne which seems like it could be enough to work with. The full text file is attached. Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tesseract-ocr+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tesseract-ocr/5fb7dd51-bd89-4ebd-acb9-3821d4970363n%40googlegroups.com.
APPROCHE A VUE Transport public à la demande ANNONAY Common carriage on request Visual approach Centre hospitalier/Hospital 16 JUN 22 AD 3 APP 01 ALT : 1364 (49 hPa) LAT : 45 14 30 N VAR : 2° E (20) LONG : 004 39 57 E FIS : LYON Info 135.525 EN TERRASSE / TERRACED COM : TROPHUS 3/TRAVIATA 3 : 85.575 vers/to St Etienne 1361 ° 21 2 NM 204 E 108. Cen 34° 15 ST tre hos NM 2034 vers/to N 82 6 CHA pita 3 D 20 VN MO lier Usine ND Beauregard la Lombardière 45° 15' Bel-Air Lycée 1617 e SECTEUR INTERDIT um SIV LYON PROHIBITED SECTOR De 0° 340° 04 Font Chevalier Montalivet 1316 ST RAMBERT 081° 7 NM ANNONAY 1283 086° 266° D 12 1 102° les 282° vers/to St Bonnet le Froid Y Grailles LE PU NM 0 D 370 254° 4 1063 72 ce PY 3 9 NM Ca n 3 068° la Lachaud ALT / HGT : ft ALT de Vissenty 1512 les 45° 0 500 m Aygas 14' Cen151° 2 Vissenty VAL osp M tre 2 N le EN italie D 27 h 331 Chaumel CE r VE 27 NM 0 ° 320 004° 40' 004° 41' vers/to Lamastie CONSIGNES PARTICULIERES / SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS : Utilisation de nuit /Night use : oui/yes Utilisation en IFR /IFR use : non/no AMDT 07/22 CHG : Suppression NDB BO. © SIA ANNONAY ATTERRISSAGE A VUE Centre hospitalier/Hospital Visual landing AD 3 ATT 01 12 AUG 21 TROUEE INTERDITE 0° PROHIBITED FUNNEL 04 340 RU PLACE E ST ° PR DU CHAMP 1368 IX DE MARS 1403 (10) 1273 BA RO U 1345 086° 266° 282° 1260 102° PLACE ST MICHEL 1345 1230 Ecole 282° St Michel E GU VO DE Musée Eglise Notre- R Dame IO LCH ME PLACE E DES FORGES RU N PLACE Hotel PLACE ALT / HGT : ft ALSACE de Ville DE LA POTERNE LORRAINE N Feux verts omnidirectionnels 1273 Green omnidirectional lights Escalier de secours Emergency stairs FATO / TLOF : 20 x 20 m. ALT / HGT : ft 1345 1 - Exploitant / Operator : 6 - Hangars disponibles / Hangars available : NIL Centre hospitalier dANNONAY /FAX : 04 75 67 35 00 7 - Réparations / Repairs facility : NIL 2 - CAA : DSAC Centre-Est (voir/see GEN) 8 - Type de surface / Surface : béton /concrete 3 - AVT : NIL 9 - Force portante / Strength : 4 t. 4 - RFFS : 5 extincteurs poudre/powder fire extinguishers 50 kg. 5 - Police - Douanes / Police - Customs : NIL AMDT 09/21 CHG : obstacle. © SIA