Re: [Fink-users] PDF to Text Program

2004-07-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Lynn Chadbourne wrote: [] graphics into text? (I don't have an OCR program.) Apart from the very powerful OCR program that you have between your ears (extremely slow output to file, unfortunately :-) ), you can try the Fink package "gocr". -- Martin

Re: [Fink-users] PDF to Text Program

2004-07-09 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.

[Fink-users] PDF to Text Program

2004-07-09 Thread Lynn Chadbourne
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" easy way to get these graphics into text? (I don