[ILUG] OCR under Linux

[Keith Hyland]

At 15:32 13/09/2004 +0100, you wrote:

 >From: Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
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>Thanks to all for all the suggestions.
>The material I'm trying to convert to text has already been scanned in,
>and is given as a PDF file with an image of each page.

Mmmm..  it occurs to me that we all thought scanning was a nesesary part of 
the process...
but as you have PDF file and you want the text out of them, how about 
PDF-to-HTML or PDFtoTEXT
(http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pdftotext.1.html)

keith