Re: dot story, perhaps?

A Dimecres, 24 d'agost de 2011, Stuart Jarvis vàreu escriure:
> 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? 

If Okular gives you text of a PDF file is because the file also contains the 
text in proper PDF format.

> Or is the impression the reporter had of it only being an image
> incorrect?

Probably.

> 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?

I guess so, yes.

Albert

> 
> Thanks,
> Stu
> 
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