On 10 December 2011 19:14, SuperEngineer <boo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 17:15 +0000, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > > > > On 10 December 2011 12:06, Barry Titterton > > <barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com> wrote: > > I am unable to open or import PDF files in LibreOffice on > > 11.10. Can > > someone else with 11.10 please tell me if they have the same > > problem? > > > > > > Hi Barry > > > > As far as I know LibreOffice does not import PDFs, although I did try > > an extension for OpenOffice.org that would import PDFs into Draw, but > > it was a rather poor result. > > > > > > If you can tell me how you are trying to do this in LO or how it > > worked in 11.04 (ie what part of LO, what commands you use, etc), I > > might be able to help you. However the best way of getting PDFs into > > LO or OOo that I know off is a package called OCRFeeder. This can > > load a PDF, 'scan' it using OCR technology, then output in .odt > > format. Between scanning and output you can clean the file up, delete > > unwanted parts, etc. It is in the Software Centre. Why not download > > it and give it a try. > > > > Tony > > > > > > Tony, > > I have "Universe" enabled in both 10.04 and 11.10.... neither, > worryingly, offer OCRFeeder. Which repository should should Barry [& > I] be looking at for OCRFeeder?] > > Hi Bill
According to the Properties in Synaptic (Software Centre is not so helpful) it is in Universe. It should be there as it is a Gnome project. See http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder If you really cannot find it in the Ubuntu repos, there is a download link on that site. Tony
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