OT: OCR / PDF Parsing

[Bob Rasmussen]

Your results will depend on the quality of your OCR library and the 
quality (mainly dot density) of the scan-to-PDF.

Try Adobe Acrobat (not Reader). It can take an image-only PDF and OCR 
it with good accuracy. Then you can Save As it to a new PDF, and/or export 
it to plain text (or other formats).

I don't know about programmability.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:

> I have an GSA that wants data extracted from PDF documents, most of which are 
> scanned
> documents saved as PDF; which in essence makes them images saved as PDF.
>
> I have written code in PHP to save the PDF to PNG and extract TEXT from PNG 
> but this is not proving
> to be reliable since lots of characters are read wrong or not read at all.
>
> It is like pulling teeth, I want this done but do not ask me to get you 
> "true" PDFs, the scanned
> documents is all I can get ... type of scenario.
>
> So, my question is: is anyone here successfully extracting data from scanned 
> documents and if so,
> what are you using?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> -- 
> Jose Lerebours
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