[arch-general] gscan2pdf - could it be included in the official arch repositories?
David C. Rankin
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri Oct 27 04:26:19 UTC 2017
On 10/01/2017 08:18 AM, Stephan Fuchs via arch-general wrote:
> With gscan2pdf I can scan many pages at once (fledbed scanner or ADF)
> and convert all pages directly to PDF. In addition, OCR is performed.
> And a pdf is generated with the text from OCR as hocr layer.
> The special feature is that a searchable PDF can be created at once.
> As far as I know it is not possible with simple-scan nor with
> scanlite nor with gambas3-gb-scanner.
> The special thing is that I can correct then OCR Text directly before I
> save the file.
Those are some of the most needed core capabilities of any serious document
management system. To it's credit, is appears to be very actively developed on
sourceforge.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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