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

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 22:42:41 -0700
Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net> wrote about Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to
import printed form into writer in Linux?:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:41:41 +0200
> Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote about [libreoffice-users] Re:
> How to import printed form into writer in Linux?:
> > Le 01/06/12 09:32, Thomas Taylor a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > > Are there any add-ons that would allow it to work with PDF files?  Is there
> > > documentation related to this functionality?
> >
> > The pdfimport extension (if at all installed by default with openSuse)
> > will only open the PDFs fed from your scanner as a bitmapped image in Draw.
> >
> > Your forms as scanned with your Brother MFC will usually be supplied in
> > one of the following formats :
> >
> > - PDF
> > - TIFF Group 4
> > - JPG (2000 ?)
> > - PNG (if you're lucky)
> > - BMP
> >
> >
> > All of those are bitmap formats. The only way your form can be
> > transformed into something useful is through the use of an
> > OCR/vectorisation programme.
> >
> > I don't know of any worthwhile, free, Linux-based solutions to your
> > problem. Yes, there are opensource OCR programs for Linux, but on the
> > whole, I have found them to be woefully lacking, and most certainly
> > cannot handle form objects, tick boxes, and the like. It is just about
> > all they can do to read text in English.
> >
> > There may be "pay" solutions out there, I don't know, and haven't looked
> > in a while.
> >
> > As far as I know, you won't find anything that will work directly with
> > LibreOffice, as in, transform your scanned form into something editable
> > and changeable within LO, unless the PDF output you provide from your
> > scanner/ocr application can supply PDF-conform embedded objects that can
> > be read by the pdfimport extension, in which case they will open in Draw
> > (which is OK, but not brilliant when you've got lots of text to edit
> > since virtually each line appears in a separate text bounding box).
> >
> > Maybe others here can suggest something more appropriate/functional.
> > Good luck with your search.
> >
> > Alex
>
> Thank you Jay, Tom, and Alexander.  Both Writer and Draw produce an error "General
> I/O Error" when trying to import pdf, tiff, and png.  The PDF Import extension is
> installed but has a problem, possibly in the SuSE version.
>
> I'm going to delete the SuSE version and build from scratch dirrect from
> Sourceforge.
>
> Again, thanks for your help.
>
> Tom

After further testing with the original PDF and a couple more that I scanned and
using two PDFs from other sources, it looks like the problem is with the PDF that
Xsane generates, not LibreOffice opening a PDF.  The two from other sources opened
properly (one read only due to password) but each of the PDFs from Xsane error-ed
out.

Consequently I've sent a message with attached PDF file to the Xsane maintainer
asking for his help in this matter.

Tom

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