At 01:00 AM 3/24/2006, Nicholas Mistry wrote:
Is there a way to OCR the tiffs and put the text under image like
adobe does. From what i have read, iText does not easly support
this, and i have not come across a product that does this on the
cheap. (under $2000) Any suggestions?
I don't know about pricing but there a numerous alternatives
to Acrobat Capture out there - in fact, most are MUCH BETTER and flexible.
Has anyone integrated gocr output into a searchable image PDF?
Not that I know of - but it could probably be done...
Honestly, I dont know how much effort is required to replecate the
"document capture" feature of acrobat..
You need an OCR engine and a PDF library. iText is the
latter - you just need to find the former. I will note, however,
that NONE of the open source/free ones will give you anywhere near
the accuracy/quality of Capture. And Capture SUCKS compared to the
serious commercial applications.
Correct... What I actually was referring to was rendering the text
on the image file. I guess i was missleading w/ the term
"doc". So, what i was referring to was taking the tiff,
stretching the canvas, and rendering the text directly on the
image. Then importing it into PDF using iText. (sounds like
digital fax technology).
Sure - that will work.
Leonard
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