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Yes, I've tried tesseract and found it to be pretty accurate, but I
don't believe there is a way to integrate the text back into the PDF.
It's easy to pull text out of image-based PDFs, but not to put the text
back in.  Driving me crazy...

Thanks for tips,
James

Bridger Dyson-Smith wrote:
> If you haven't already, take a look at tesseract (
> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/). There's some discussion of using
> tesseract and shell scripting to work with tiffs to pdfs to ocr'd text,
> which isn't exactly what you're wanting to do, I know, but may prove helpful
> (http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20061210115516438).
> Cheers!
> Bridger Dyson-Smith
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Terry Harrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> You might want to look at ABBYY Fine Reader 9.0 Professional, which can be
>> driven from the command line.  Fine Reader  is used at the Library of
>> Congress.  Here is a info link to get you started (search "command"):
>>
>>
>> http://www.scanstore.com/Scanning/Document_Imaging/Software/OCR_Software/Nuance/omnipage_review.asp
>>
>> Regards,
>> Terry
>>
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>> Terry Harrison
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>> CACI
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>> Norfolk, Va. 23508
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