[Dspace-tech] RE : MediaFilter clarification

if I look at your unsuccessful document, it seems to be images of a scanned document, because some pages seems to be a little crooked or missaligned. That kind of documents needs an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to be able to retrieve the texts from it. Dspace isn't an OCR tool, because

Re: [Dspace-tech] RE : MediaFilter clarification

Thanks Stephanie, Just to be clear, does the MediaFilter grab the text file which is attached to the PDF, if the PDF has a text file? So, if the PDF is simply an image, then MediaFilter will create a blank page. Is this correct? Shawna Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries