[pdftex] Scanned and searchable PDF?

[Frédéric Darboux]

Thank you Martin: it works.

It is not as nice as what can be done with Adobe Capture, but this will 
be useful as a poor-man solution.
For the record, find below an example.

Frédéric

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[a4paper, top=0cm, bottom=0cm, left=-0.6cm, right=0cm]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}

\setlength\unitlength{1cm}
\begin{picture}(21,29.7)
\put(0,29){\parbox[t]{21cm}{flower}}
\put(0,0){\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{flower.jpg}}
\end{picture}

\newpage

\setlength\unitlength{1cm}
\begin{picture}(21,29.7)
\put(0,29){\parbox[t]{21cm}{hammer}}
\put(0,0){\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{hammer.jpg}}
\end{picture}

\end{document}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%





Martin Schröder a écrit :
> 2007/8/9, Frédéric Darboux <Frederic.Darboux at orleans.inra.fr>:
>> I have already seen such kind of PDF file, but I do not know how to
>> build one myself. Could it be done using pdfTeX? (and how...)
> 
> I've never seen one of these files, but I think it's done thusly:
> Create a page with the text and overlay it with the scanned image of
> the page. Then only the image will be displayed/printed, but the text
> can still be searched.
> 
> Best
>    Martin
> _______________________________________________
> pdftex mailing list
> pdftex at tug.org
> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex
> 

-- 
.......................................................
INRA Orléans - Science du Sol
2163 Avenue de la Pomme de Pin, Ardon
BP 20619
F-45166 Olivet Cedex
France
Ph:  +33 2 38 41 48 23
Fax: +33 2 38 41 78 69
Email: <Frederic.Darboux at orleans.inra.fr>