[ubuntu-za] How to copy text from PDF file (URGENT) - SOLVED!!

[Chris Schoonbee]

On 14/05/2011 14:27, Ian Whitfield wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who replied to my question. In particular to William who 
> put me onto a fantastic program - 'gImageReader'!!
>
> It works great and has also solved my OCR problem as well. It's MUCH 
> more accurate than the others I've tried and has saved me lots of time.
>
> I now print out any protected PDF pages I need, scan them to a jpeg 
> and run them through gImageReader. This process works 100%! And the 
> program brings up both the original image and the OCR result 
> side-by-side so you can proof and correct right away. No need for a 
> separate step for this.
>
Instead of printing and scanning, have you tried using Imagemagick to 
directly convert a pdf file to a jpg file using the command:

convert the_file.pdf  new_name_if_wanted.jpg

It will convert between formats based on the file extensions given in 
the command.

> Thanks again guys.
>
> Ian Whitfield
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