[ubuntu-in] edit scanned test image

2007-10-13 Thread nan budh
friends i have a pdf which is actually a scanned image of a text. is there any 
app which can allow me to edit the text?
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nanbudh

   
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Re: [ubuntu-in] edit scanned test image

2007-10-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/13/07, nan budh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 friends i have a pdf which is actually a scanned image of a text. is there
 any app which can allow me to edit the text?

 Try opening the pdf with latest gimp, it might work. Though fimp will
not be able to save the file as pdf. If this doesnt work, there are
pdf2png, pdf2bmp  or pdf2svg convertors

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Re: [ubuntu-in] edit scanned test image

2007-10-13 Thread Venkatesh Nandakumar
nan budh wrote:
 friends i have a pdf which is actually a scanned image of a text. is
 there any app which can allow me to edit the text?
 regards
 nanbudh

 
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try tesseract, an OCR program, don't know if pdf is supported...

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