On 12/08/11 12:22, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Genes MailLists<li...@sapience.com>  wrote:
>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote:
>>
>>
>>   You could try this fedora app:  pdftotext
>>
>>   (guys please dont double post to old and new fedora list)
>>
> The OP needs to confirm that the original pdf is actually text and not
> an image of text?
>
> The other way is to use okular or similar and then you can select the
> text and copy it to the clipboard - and then paste it into the
> translation box.
>
> However if the pdf is a scanned image then it would need ocr before
> the text could be extracted -
>

        I believe it is a scanned image now that I realize it has a
        handwritten signature.

        Xsane does ocr. I tried scanning a printed copy and letting
        xsane save it as a text message as well as trying gocr to read
        an xsane .pnm file. Both produced the same output which looks
        like it would require a lot of work to be usable if it is
        possible at all?

        I will do without the Google translation.

        Thanks for all the suggestions. This has been interesting, I
        always wondered about ocr, what it could do. I need to
        experiment with a document in English so that I have something I
        understand however it looks like the output quality is poor?

        Bob



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