i'm currently waiting for the OCR of the manual to finish up on gscan2pdf. will let you know if it comes out nice. here is some info about some ocr tools available on ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OCR On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: haven't messed with ocr in a minute but i'll give it a shot this afternoon     On 2014-09-11 01:01, Jake wrote: so all the manuals i have for the robot are SCANS of some sort of papyrus, upon which the instructions were once inscribed. this means they are not searchable. It seems at first that they can be searched, and copy and paste, but that is only the safety warning pages inserted by the people who scanne d the pages into the PDF. None of the content is searchable! if you know how to do OCR (optical character recognition) on a PDF and make it so that one can still search the PDF without altering its readable appearance, please do so to som e of the manuals here: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot highest priority would be the programming manual: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479950-3-Programming_manual_v4.pdf and the robot arm manual: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/479951-4-K10S_manual.pdf this would be an example of a PDF that has the scanned parts searchable: http://spaz.org/~jake/robot/02-TOE-C945-111%20-%20Service%20manual%20Motoma… -jake _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss