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Isn't the solution to render a PDF one wants to extract text from, with a high dpi, and then OCR the result?
by bambax 6y ago
Isn't the solution to render a PDF one wants to extract text from, with a high dpi, and then OCR the result?
- dredmorbius 6y agoAddressed in TFA under "Why not OCR all the time?'. There are drawbacks. Particularly at scale.
- mcswell 6y agoHave you ever looked at the output of an OCR engine? Character (T) at position 1.03409 38.953934 Character (h) at position 9.89402 38.927831 etc. And hypothesized line, para etc. boundaries that (at least in my experience) might have come from a Ouija board.