[users] Re: Re[2]: PDF Conversion

[Twayne]

In news:334552512.20101210144...@gmail.com,
Douglas Hinds douglas.hi...@gmail.com typed:
 It might help if you had stated what you meant by the
 results were not adequate.

 OO writer can now open pdf files, but it opens them in OO
 Draw and each and every line is included in it's own text
 box so the documents flow is totally lost for the purpose
 of editing.  The letterhead didn't appear, either.  And we
 are describing a pdf document created in writer and
 exported to pdf from there.

 What type of editing do you want to do?

 I want a faithful reproduction of the pdf file in a totally
 editable form.

 Where does OOo fail to do what you want?

 It doesn't do the above.  OO opens pdf files in Draw - that
 means it's a graphics rather than a document file.

 Perhaps there's a configuration that can change this -
 which is
 the reason for my post today to users at oo.org.

 Any ideas?

 Douglas Hinds

If you have OCR, perhaps you can feed the documents to your OCR and get both 
the images and text back that way. Just a passing thought.

HTH,

Twayne`




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Re: [users] Re: Re[2]: PDF Conversion

[Douglas Hinds]

Twayne suggested:

 If you have OCR, perhaps you can feed the documents to your OCR and get both
 the images and text back that way. Just a passing thought.

That might prove useful (and the Mint Software Manager lists a
number of them) but would be far more complicated than a pdf
to .doc or .rtf conversion application because:

1.- OCR apps are usually not fully accurate (and I have to convert
a LOT of pdf files); and

2.- It assumes that most pdf files are graphics files at bottom,
which is often not the case.

In fact, a pdf file generated by a scanner will NOT convert to a
word processor document (EXCEPT in the manner you suggest) but the
vast majority of pdf files are NOT graphics files but rather,
DOCUMENT files (hence the name, portable document format) and will
convert quite readily to text plus graphics layouts, using a proper
converter.

Remember that PDF is an Adobe format and so is Postscript.

Applications that convert Postscript to PDF and Vice Versa exist but
I am still investigating the available options and haven't installed
any yet.

Whatever I discover I'll post here.

Douglas Hinds


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