> Are there any open source tools that would slurp in content like this ... Yes, tesseract[1] can do a pretty good job. Here[2] is a blog post which describes

> Are there any open source tools that would slurp in content like this ... Yes, tesseract[1] can do a pretty good job. Here[2] is a blog post which describes using it to perform OCR on PDF's. As for searching the PDF contents, Solr[3] might be what you are looking for instead. 1 - https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract 2 - http://fransdejonge.com/2012/04/ocr-text-in-pdf-with-tesseract/ http://fransdejonge.com/2012/04/ocr-text-in-pdf-with-tessera... 3- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6694327/indexing-pdf-with-solr http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6694327/indexing-pdf-with...