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Old 09-13-2014, 11:18 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
A PDF containing scanned pages obviously can't be reflowed - it's just a picture.
Not to beat a dead horse, but this does seem to be a common misconception. As Markom pointed out, if the text is regular enough, and there are not too many defects, text re-flow on scanned pages can be done reliably using graphical methods to find the text rows and words within the scanned bitmaps (not OCR). The links below are from willus.com/k2pdfopt (in the middle of the page where the examples are):

Scanned book pages (no OCR layer)

Scanned pages as processed by k2pdfopt (no OCR performed)
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