You may want to consider how best to handle PDF files where the text would
contain ligatures and glyph ids rather than the underlying characters.

A.
On 12/10/2013 4:58 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Matthew Sherman <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >> For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based
> >> program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8
> >
> > Very slick, good work.  I can see where this tool can be very helpful.
>  It
> > does have some issues with some characters, but this is rather common
> with
> > most systems.
>
> Again, thank you for the support. Yes, there are some escaping issues to
> be resolved. "Release early. Release often." I need help with the graphic
> design in general.
>
> Here's an enhancement I thought of:
>
>   1. allow readers to authenticate
>   2. allow readers to upload documents
>   3. documents get saved in readers' cache
>   4. allow interface to list documents in the cache
>   5. provide text mining services against reader-selected documents
>   6. go to Step #1
>
> It would also be cool if I could figure out how to finish the installation
> of Tesseract to enable OCRing. [1]
>
> [1] OCRing -
> http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2013/201303/1554.html
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
>