[texhax] search for text in a pdf file

[Tom Schneider]

> so now i'm back where i started, only just a bit smarter.  so what else do
> y'all use to pull text out of a pdf such as this one?

If I understand you, you have an image and want text.  That requires
optical character recognition (OCR), a difficult thing.

Fortunately there is at least one open source project:

http://jocr.sourceforge.net/

It's called GOCR or JOCR.

It's still in development but might do the trick.  I'm sure they would
appreciate the attention ...

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
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