Hi Alex, On 17/12/2008, alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to generate an editable pdf from a scanned pdf. I want the > program to recognize all text fields and check boxes in the scanned pdf and > convert each of them in to corresponding controls. How can I achieve this > using iText?
The corner-stone of what you seem to need is an OCR application. This is *ABSOLUTELY* out of the scope of iText. However, once the scanned pdf is processed and the elements modelised, iText can surely be used to generate a PDF file with the corresponding controls. Cheers, alexis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
