![]() ![]() In which case you need an OCR program, which in the FOSS world is usually Tesseract. Quote:Now, If you scan documents, the scanner output is an image, not text, so your PDF is just a bunch of JPEGs, and MS-Office is doing some OCR. In fact, several times the file opened directly in Draw, even though I selected Writer. (10-01-2020, 06:43 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: The "JFIF" at the beginning hints that there is a JPEG. Now, If you scan documents, the scanner output is an image, not text, so your PDF is just a bunch of JPEGs, and MS-Office is doing some OCR. It can locate text parts, but considers each line as an independent text part, so don't expect to reflow paragraphs. This said the right LibreOffice app to open PDF is Draw, not Writer. The "JFIF" at the beginning hints that there is a JPEG. I didn't want to depend on having to use Word.ĭoes anyone know how to use either LibreOffice or OpenOffice to obtain the scanned PDF result in an editable text file? I've tried several Character Set options, but a page with ascii codes always appears. With OpenOffice version 4.1.7 (currently the most current), editing is allowed, but the text appears encoded. ![]() ![]() With LibreOffice the file opens but does not allow me to edit it. My problem is that I can only do this using Microsoft Word, not with Libre Office Writer or OpenOffice Writer. (10-01-2020, 06:05 PM)Krikor Wrote: In short, I scan a PDF document and then try to edit it as text. ![]()
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