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Probably because the pdf is just a big image file? If I understand correctly. Otherwise it should be just copy paste from pdf.
by angry-hacker 10y ago
Probably because the pdf is just a big image file? If I understand correctly. Otherwise it should be just copy paste from pdf.
- pitaj 10y ago> The PDF files are not scans. They are PDF files created from a Word file. I am unsure as to why he can't just copy / paste.
- iplaw 10y agoApologies. The PDFs that we deal with are digital-native, but do not have embedded text and are not searchable. I simply want to OCR the PDF and spit the text into a Word/text file. I don't even care about perfect formatting, that's easy to fix. I do care about perfect OCR. That's crucial.
- iplaw 10y agoRight. It's an image PDF generated from a text file, so there are no digital-to-analog-to-digital errors introduced. These files should be perfect OCR candidates, but everything that I've found is full of errors, missing portions of sentences, rearranged fragments, etc.