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Mohan-V-Allied · 05-16-2022, 07:40 AM

Hello,
Have a rather minor issue concerning converting PDF's. Have already found a work around; but it means using another program and adds time which adds up if all the files are converted.

Want to convert PDF's but as the pages are typewriten cannot convert to any format, other than to a zip file which produces a zip folder containing images. Can then take these images and put them through a OCR program.

The issue is the image output is PNG. Having run some tests (saving text as various image formats) found that BMP has the most errors. PNG has a lot less but GIF has half the amount of PNG.

So is it possible to have the images from the PDF in the zip folder out as Gif? This would be helpful as it would save some considerable time.

Thanks in advance.
Mohan

05-16-2022, 07:40 AM	#1
Mohan-V-Allied Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: Kobo touch	Minor question GIF in zip output Hello, Have a rather minor issue concerning converting PDF's. Have already found a work around; but it means using another program and adds time which adds up if all the files are converted. Want to convert PDF's but as the pages are typewriten cannot convert to any format, other than to a zip file which produces a zip folder containing images. Can then take these images and put them through a OCR program. The issue is the image output is PNG. Having run some tests (saving text as various image formats) found that BMP has the most errors. PNG has a lot less but GIF has half the amount of PNG. So is it possible to have the images from the PDF in the zip folder out as Gif? This would be helpful as it would save some considerable time. Thanks in advance. Mohan