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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] OCR PDF
From:       John Layt <johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2014-12-01 14:04:24
Message-ID: CAM1DM6mzKy0biuvk+6_2y1WoVmqWWikFgEN5x-=kvBat9oGqMw () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 1 December 2014 at 10:14, Vojt=C4=9Bch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.o=
rg> wrote:
> Hi,
> is there any working tool which is able to add text layer into scanned PD=
F? I
> tried YAGF (front-end for cuneiform and/or tesseract), but it seems to ha=
ve
> only option to save the text as separate TXT file. Cuneiform also doesn't=
 have
> this possibility and tesseract I wasn't able to get to work (script OCRmy=
PDF
> was always complaining about missing tesseract even it was installed).
> Scantailor seems to lack this functionality. Ocrad wasn't able to start (=
and
> no error message produced) and gocr isn't able to work with PDF... Some o=
ld
> demo version of Vuescan I have requires libgtk-X11 which is unavailable. =
And
> it is not the cheapest software... Tragedy. Any other suggestions? ;-)
> Yours,
> Vojt=C4=9Bch

I looked into this a while back:

https://plus.google.com/104051197821989601827/posts/82G9dMaSvGs

Try find gscan2pdf or OCRFeeder, which are supposed to do it.

John.
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