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Old 10-16-2008, 11:23 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by Alfy View Post
By the way, I found one way that seems to be giving good results when converting a PDF into a html: when running ReadIris OCR on a PDF text based document, the result looks quite good. It's a bit ridiculous, considering there's nothing to OCR, but that might prove an effective tool for converting PDFs. It'll do nothing for protected PDFs, obviously.
Nice find. There is something to OCR and that is exactly why PDF is so tough to translate. The OCR scans the presented screen which solves the problem of the page data being scattered all over the page instead of being sequential.

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