On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:41:31 Thomas Taylor wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:01:43 -0700 Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> wrote about [opensuse] Is Xsane exporting
incorrect PDF?:
I'm attempting to edit a scanned into PDF format and open it in LibreOffice but keep getting an error "General Input/Output Error". I have opened other PDF documents and been able to edit them (some required password).
LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Xsane 0.998 openSuSE 12.2-M3 KDE 4.8.1 Scanner: Brother MFC-J6710DW via wired network
I've looked in /var/logs but been unable to find anything related. I have been able to work around this problem by opening the PDF in Inkscape and using a text overlay but that isn't a very nice solution.
Does anyone have a comment or suggestion of how to get this PDF into a usable format? Is this a known problem with Xsane's exporting? So far I haven't been able to find it with Google.
Thanks, Tom
Should add that the PDF in question opens in xpdf from console but can't be edited in that program.
Tom
Tom, XSane will be exporting it as an image in a pdf document, not as text. XSane does not do OCR. If you want to be able to edit the text you'll need to run it through an OCR program, but that will not preserve the document formatting - you'll end up with plain text. I'm not aware of of any way that you can scan a document as an image, export it as a formatted pdf and then be able to edit it. Not with free software, anyway. Regards, Rodney. -- ========================================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ========================================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org