Re: pdf converter?
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
It comes packaged with OCR (which makes it a large download). Note that
the Google Tesseract OCR used is the best free OCR at this time, but it
is not as good as commercial OCR software.
Jamal
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Alex Hall
wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:36:55 -0400
> From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: pdf converter?
>
> Thanks, that was what I was looking for. Do I need MS Office to
> use ocr, or does your program come packaged with ocr?
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
> >Subject: Re: pdf converter?
>
> >Sorry about the confusion, Alex. My old site is still up because
> of
> >enough people who find the non-programming material useful. My
> new site
> >with a programming focus is
> >http://NonvisualDevelopment.org
> >The Open Source Projects page has links
> >to my programs, including PDF to TXT. It's still actually stored
> on the
> >Empowerment Zone server at
> >http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
>
> >Remember that to try OCR, one needs to check the checkbox called
> >Image Format.
>
> >Jamal
> >On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alex Hall
> >wrote:
>
> >> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:40:14 -0400
> >> From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
> >> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: Re: pdf converter?
>
> >> There was a converter from Jamal that could convert and do ocr,
> >> but I could not find it on the empowermentzone.com site, only an
> >> old dos version that did not have the features I saw in the
> >> email.
>
> >> Have a great day,
> >> Alex
>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: Daniel Dalton <d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>Date sent: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:19:07 +1000 (EST)
> >>>Subject: Re: pdf converter?
>
> >>>On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alex Hall wrote:
>
> >>>> A few weeks ago I saw an email for a pdf converter. Could
> >> someone re-send
> >>>> that link? I deleted the email by mistake. Thanks.
>
> >>>There are a lot out there, I like using pdftotext or pdftohtml
> >>>Just use apt if you are on linux to install them:
> >>>apt-get install poppler-utils
> >>>Should get pdftohtml and pdftotext...
>
> >>>HTH, and just google for a win version since I dunno about that.
>
> >>>--
> >>>Daniel Dalton
>
> >>>http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/
> >>><d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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