Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] PDF to Text Program

2004-07-11 Thread NorthLondon John
On Jul 9, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Lynn Chadbourne wrote: A friend gave me a CD of several files to convert to text. Unfortunately, they are scanned image files, each with many pages. I've tried a number of Mac and windoze programs but still end up with a graphic of the text. Is there a reasonably

[Fink-beginners] Re: [Fink-users] PDF to Text Program

2004-07-11 Thread Dan White
Part of it depends if it is a true PDF with the source text imbedded in it somewhere or if it is a PDF of the scanned image. Try opening it up with a text editor/viewer and look to see if you can find some of the body text. If you cannot, then it is a PDF-ified image and OCR is your only hope.