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TEXT extraction

ConsultClifford · 2005-02-02 09:22:47

anyone know of a piece of software that can extract text from a pdf (where the text is not selectable) or image ? Tnx

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02-02-2005 10:22am

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ConsultClifford

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anyone know of a piece of software that can extract text from a pdf (where the text is not selectable) or image ?

Tnx

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#2 02-02-2005 10:32am
seamus

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What you're looking for is OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. More often than not, this comes bundled with scanners, but a google might find some free stuff for ye.

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#3 03-02-2005 6:57pm
daymobrew

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Search the web for 'pdf to text'
I came across a free one (command line, worked on Unix, IIRC) last year. Can't remember it.

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