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baseline bum
07-08-2008, 06:07 PM
I downloaded a book, but dude who made the archive just took photos of each page. :lol

Anyone know a good way to recognize the characters so that I can just write them in a .tex file (to then compile into postscript or pdf)?

Here's a sample of an image I want to extract text from:

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5006/pg0130fb2.jpg

Heath Ledger
07-08-2008, 06:14 PM
yea its called type it out then put it in a pdf...

Stacie
07-08-2008, 06:57 PM
http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/blogs/emonline.nsf/dx/how-to-convert-a-book-to-pdftext

baseline bum
07-09-2008, 12:21 PM
Acrobat Pro couldn't handle it, so I ended up using OmniPage Pro to extract the text from the book.

Dude
07-09-2008, 01:49 PM
Thanks for the update I hate when asshats ask for help and never get back to you on what they ended up doing.