converting graphics on a text console

[Glenn Ervin]

Your OCR program should handle a PDF just like a GIF.
The Windows OCR programs do that anyway.
Glenn
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From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: converting graphics on a text console


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Does anyone have any advice for me? I have a text-only system here, no
X or Gnome. Someone scanned a document for me, and sent it as a pdf
file. I use pdftotext of course, but evidently the pdf file contains
only image data, so pdftottext just gave me garbage. Maybe. At least it
looks like garbage.

So what now? I can use gocr or ocrad to try pulling text out of the
image, except I somehow need to convert the image data in the pdf file
to gif first. Has anyone done anything like this in a text console? I
have successfully used OCR software on .gif files, but how do I get
from pdf to gif? 

Man, it's tough persuading folks that an image of a document that
appears perfectly readable on a graphics screen is not really text of
the sort I can handle in a text console. 

Thanks for any advice.

Chuck

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