---------- Forwarded message --------- அனுப்புநர்: Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> Date: வியா., 10 செப்., 2020, முற்பகல் 9:13 Subject: Create Searchable Tamil PDF using PDF/A in libreoffice writer To: <il...@freelists.org>
Creating searchable Tamil PDF is a long time dream for Tamil People. For so many reasons like PDF standards, Unicode Issues with Tamil, Issues with rendering engines, etc, we could not copy/paste any tamil content from PDF files. We have a issue for this here https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/78 Today morning, I was reading this issue and explored about PDF files. Found a PDF/A standard. It promised to give Unicode support. Is it means a PDF/A file in Tamil is searchable? YES. YES. YES. Tested this using Libreoffice Writer and yeah. It works. I can copy the tamil text as it is and even do a search within the PDF. Here is a demo video on this in Tamil. https://youtu.be/Ug7UM_da7m8 Read more about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A https://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf20/en/resources/pdf-iso-standards/10-most-important-things-about-pdfa/ https://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PDFA_in_a_Nutshell_211.pdf -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
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