[TriLUG] More linux pdf questions

[Mark Freeze]

I don't know if this is an alternative for you, but we create
text-based pdf's with the PDFLib, (www.pdflib.com), and PHP.  We
create image templates in Acrobat, overlay them with variable data
from our MySQL databases, and create text searchable documents.  For
local images and testing, we use the PHP Command Line Interface.

HTH,
Mark

On 9/1/06, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> Came across this in an article on lwn.net: http://jocr.sourceforge.net
> No idea whether it would help, but take a look.
>
> BTW, the article was about how a Spamassassin plugin is using this to
> scan for spammery in images. Quite interesting.
>
> Owen
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:05:34PM -0400, James Tuttle wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I'm working to script some processes at work and have come across a
> > problem creating pdfs from tiff images.  I can easily do it with
> > 'convert' from imagemagick, but this yields an image pdf rather than a
> > text pdf which means one can't search it, select text, or full-text
> > index the pdf.  I was wondering if anyone has any advice about how to
> > integrate ocr into the process.  Alternately, I've been given a copy of
> > Acrobat 7 Pro, but it doesn't seem to have a scriptable API.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
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