Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:00:06PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > hello. > > Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read > from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files?
Yes ... From PDF? I do not know but implimenting it is simple with some filtering. Questio is more on quality or correctness of OCR result. So far, I have mixed result of very bad and fairly usable. None was very good. I think its database needs to be trained. > In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a > package. Use aptitude which has better searching capability. Here is my search result of graphic tools including OCR. http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch12.en.html#listofgraphicdatatools > Thank you in anticipation. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
