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Topic: Re: TIFF to Hidden Text PDF (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 31899
From: LeonardR
Date: 12/20/2001 03:43 PM

At 03:42 AM 12/20/2001 +1100, p-pdf-developer Listmanager wrote:
>The hidden text requirement is to support full text search and retrieval.
>If the words "what I'm searching for" occur on the correct page of the
>correct document, where on that page it occurs is of no relevance.

If you do not care "where on the page it occurs", just that it
occurs on a given page - then you can pretty much use ANY combination of
tools you want! Use any OCR engine that makes you happy, in conjunction
with a library/tool (such as the ActivePDF Toolkit) that can add both TIFF
images and invisible text to a page.


>If there is no tool out there that does this? Perhaps what I need to do is
>get the development team to create such a tool. We could then market the
>COM or ActiveX tool we create. There seems to be an unfilled need.

If you would like to pursue this route, please feel free to
contact me offlist about consulting opportunities...


Leonard