Thanks for the response. I should have seen that. > Message: 28 > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:11:47 +0800 > From: Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: PDF Files - Is there a way to read them in LiveCode? > Message-ID: > <CA+uh5kiBsZ8=agziftvyy4ej1hlopybsudsuv_a_lukq4mn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > OCR is the last thing you want to use. Far too many errors. > > If you are on Mac you can use Applescript to open, Select All and Copy > and this will result in 100% of the text being available, no OCR > errors. Unfortunately, depending on your document the output might not > exactly match the input. This will be particularly true pages pages > containing multi-column data or there are tables of data. It's easy > enough to test, open the pdf in question, Select All, Copy and then > Paste into TextEdit. You'll be left with 3 possibilities: > > 1) You are extremely lucky and your pdfs are very basic and the text > output is a 100% match. LC solution very easy. > 2) 90% of the document is fine but a couple of tables don't match. > Your pdfs are standardised and these tables (or multi columns) appear > in the same place. Will be possible to parse the data and use LC to > correct the formatting. Development time will be considerably longer. > 3) Your pdfs are random and there are tables and multi columns all > over the place resulting in output that is anywhere between 1% to 10% > accurate. Forget it, it will be almost impossible to reconstruct the > jumble of text back to the original layout. > > HTH > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Jonathan Scott <so...@agate.plala.or.jp> > wrote: >> Hi, >> I have some PDF files that I'd like to create a search stack for. I >> looked on the net and found a way to display them in LiveCode, but is there >> actually a way to read the OCR text that's in each file? If not, there >> should be. >> Thanks in advance.
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