On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:41:31 Thomas Taylor wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:01:43 -0700 Thomas Taylor wrote about [opensuse] Is Xsane exporting

incorrect PDF?:

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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

On 06/04/2012 09:29 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote:

2012. június 4. 13:32 napon Rodney Baker írta:

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:41:31 Thomas Taylor wrote:

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On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:01:43 -0700 Thomas Taylor wrote about [opensuse] Is Xsane exporting

incorrect PDF?:

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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. Yes, xsane inserts the scanned stuff into the pdf as an image.

However there is cuneiform/yagf pair, an OCR and its GUI frontend, and it works pretty well, and available for openSUSE. It can save the text as plain text (unformatted), and in html format, which keeps some formatting (headers, bold, maybe font size).

Istvan

great program going to save me alot of typing I'm not a speed typist thanks for the info should be put in the distro -- Hans Krueger hanskrueger007@roadrunner.com registered Linux user 289023 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-06-04 21:44, Thomas Taylor wrote:

Hi Rodney, Guess I need to clarify further. I'm not wanting to edit the actual document or formatting. What I want to do is enter data such as "name, address, etc." into the appropriate fields, either directly or as an overlay. I found I can do this by opening the PDF in Inkscape and doing a text overlay.

I would not use a PDF for that, I would scan into an image. jpg, png... - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/NJrwACgkQIvFNjefEBxpO1wCcDvSy4rRD+IK4BLxsZHMjaDn5 laMAoIMuscSeO7qJJjE84QxP+RuDpTNa =U9zp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org