OT: Creating PDF with both scanned images of text and also raw text

[Aaron Gray]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 00:28, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> On 03/07/2019 22:09, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > I  am scanning old papers in both image and OCR'ed form and I want to
> > be able to combine them in a PDF document so the images are visible
> > but the text also is in the PDF for anyone who wants to extract it.
> >
> > I have found camera ready PDF's that have text in them and been able
> > to extract both so I want to be able to do the same.
>
> The pdfimages utility will extract the images separately to PNM files,
> which you can convert to JPEG with ImageMagick or similar.
>
> What are you using for the OCR? I have had excellent restults with

Tesseract.
>

Sorry no I am after creating PDF's with image based content and hidden text
that it retrievable with PDF text extraction tools.

Thanks,

Aaron

-- 
Aaron Gray

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
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