Re: [Swftools-common] swf ocr

[Chris]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:51:45 -0800
______ _______ <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!!!!
> 
> I have following problem - some pdf files are scand documents and after
> conversion they are not searchable. as i have red pdf2swf already contains
> ocr(gocr) but it is not eorking. So does somebody now some any ocr engine
> for swf?
> 
> Thanks

Why would you expect them to be?  Scanned documents are usually images, and any
text in them is part of the image.

OCR is the process that attempts to extract editable text from it's graphical
representation.

It would make better sense therefore to ocr the original pdf, then create a
second pdf from the ocr'd version.  At least you'll know that recognisable
text is then contained inside your pdf before conversion.

Try also searching the mailing list archives,

  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/

For example,

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/swftools-common/2010-06/msg00093.html

Regards,


Chris.
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Chris <address@hidden>