Re: [libreoffice-users] How to import printed form into writer in Linux?

On 06/01/2012 03:32 AM, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have several printed forms that I would like to import into LOWriter.  The forms
> have fonts of various sizes and families on the same form with areas for entering
> information (names, addresses, part numbers, etc.).
>
> I have a Brother MFC printer that can scan the forms into a variety of formats.  I
> don't currently have any OCR capability.  Looking in writer I couldn't find anywhere
> to import a scanned image.
>
> Are there any add-ons that would allow it to work with PDF files?  Is there
> documentation related to this functionality?
>
> LibreOffice 3.5.2.2
> openSuSE 12.2 x86-64
> Kernel: 3.3.0-2-default
> KDE 4.8.1
>
> Thanks, Tom
Draw will open pdf files. I have not used to it edit any pdf files.

Your repository probably has an OCR reader, I can confirm this for
Ubuntu there are several available both GUI and CLI.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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