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Have fun copy pasting or searching for something you see. -T On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 20:26 -0700, Jason Barnett wrote: > 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] > > m> > > 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 _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
