Re: Is Pandoc OCR Capable

[BP Jonsson <bpjonsson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I convert PDF to DOCX with Google docs and then convert the DOCX to
Markdown with Pandoc. That saves a lot of work compared to converting PDF
to non-Markdown text and then add Markdown markup manually.

Den tis 3 jul 2018 14:08CR <chuckr69-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> skrev:

>
> I just wanted to comment on PDF and OCR, since I do a bit of both.
>
> A PDF is just a package, a container. It can contain images, text, or
> both. If a PDF is created from Word, then it is normally easy to extract
> the text if there is no security. Extracting tables from a PDF is a
> different matter though.
>
> When Google was first scanning in public domain books they just scanned an
> image of each page and placed that into a PDF. These images (as a PDF) did
> poorly with OCR software for many reason: the page was crooked in the
> image, OCR doesn't do italics well, fonts were non-standard, etc. But some
> PDF images can be OCRd but they need a lot of cleanup. I do this on a
> regular basis.
>
> Google taking the quick and easy route in saving books in digital format,
> and the poor OCR results from Google books, is where https://www.pgdp.net/
> (from Project Gutenberg) fills a niche. These people actually type in the
> text from an image of each page, but it's a long multiple step process to
> finish the book.
>
> https://www.online-convert.com is free and has the option to extract text
> in a PDF, and do OCR on images in the text if it's from Google Docs. It
> supports almost unlimited pages and is the best free option I've found so
> far for converting PDF to plain text (which I then convert to Markdown then
> EPUB).
>
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