I just downloaded some documents from Docusign and was able to fully interact with them using Okular. Search, copy, print all worked fine. It might be worth a try. What software were you trying to use? Maybe it is just that application that is choking on the file. I'm guessing that due to the nature of the documents, you don't have one to share for us to test with. Am I wrong?
Jason On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 7:19 PM Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:17 PM TomasK <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I have some PDFs (contracts) from docusign and/or similar cloud service > > - I can read and print them, but I cannot copy or search their content. > > > > The zealots have encoded every paragraph/page with some hash and > > included custom fonts to make the document look and print normal. > > > > Does anyone know of some linuxy way to get rid of this BS and convert > > the PDFs to normal unicode? > > > > Of course, I can print + scan + OCR the darn thing, but that feels like > > heavy handed solution to this idiotic problem. Obviously I am looking > > for faster solution, so that does not include me finding the hash and > > coding the hell out of it by Christmas 202x. > > > > I don't know the answer to your question, but you might be able to > skip the print part by uploading it to google drive and using the OCR > there. Not a great solution, but a possible solution. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
