Re: dot story, perhaps?

On Wednesday 24 August 2011 11:14:15 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimecres, 24 d'agost de 2011, Stuart Jarvis vàreu escriure:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 24 August 2011 03:41:04 Seth wrote:
> > > I've written up a story, I think it might be appropriate for the
> > > dot...or
> > > it might not be; I don't know; it's fairly anecdotal.  But it is a true
> > > story about how Okular in particular is helping my sister, with
> > > impaired eye sight, get through university, so I thought it might be
> > > something.
> > > 
> > > Attached.
> > 
> > Thanks so much for this, it's a really great story. I think i can fit
> > nicely for the Dot. I'll wait for the opinions of the other Dot editors,
> > but I think we can use it more or less as it is. We have a little bit of
> > a backlog at the moment, so it might take us a little while to get it
> > done, but at least it is not really something that is too
> > time-sensitive.
> > 
> > Does anyone know if the automatic OCR of a selection is a special feature
> > in Okular as compared to other PDF readers?
> 
> Okular does not do any OCR at all

Ok, so how does it extract text from the image as described in the original 
report? Or is the impression the reporter had of it only being an image 
incorrect?

Btw, that's also something that's surprised me in my own usage - I can have 
what is clearly a scanned page in a PDF (poor quality, various marks around 
the letters) but still copy text rather than just an image. Is it that the 
scanning app will have done OCR and associated text with the file?

Thanks,
Stu

-- 
Stuart Jarvis
KDE Marketing Working Group, Promotion Team and KDE.News

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