Re: [libreoffice-users] Scanned and OCR's PDF to text

You can try google chrome, bookworm and tech freedom to extract text from a
pdf.

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, 4:25 pm Dave Howorth, <dave@howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> Back on list ....
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 22:17:48 +0200
> Leo L te Braake <lijstebrij@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I was merely parafrasing the titles, but it is a good idea indeed to
> > specify the two versions:
> >
> >   * This one has OCR text inside:
> >     https://nl.geneanet.org/archives/livres/17517/68
> >     I did not see Tome 1 here
>
> Thanks for the links. They're very helpful. The one above requires me
> to create an account to see the content, which I haven't bothered to do.
>
> > And this one :
> >
> >   * https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k32141124.texteImage
> >
> > Here I saw Tome 1 also, but at this moent I do not succeed in finding
> > them. When found, I'll post the link .
>
> This one allows me to see the content, and offers me the opportunity to
> download it. It offers download as PDF, but it also offers download as
> TXT. The TXT download appears to me to have the content you seek, so
> I'm not sure why you'd bother with a PDF?
>
> > Leo
> >
> >
> > Op 9-6-2025 om 11:22 schreef Dave Howorth:
> > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 01:45:38 +0200
> > > Leo L te Braake<lijstebrij@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Subject says it all: I found a book  >200 pages of genealogical
> > > > data (Papal Zouave army 1860-70). There's a good quality PDF in
> > > > the BNF Gallica, and a worse one I found on Geneanet. But: this
> > > > one has been OCRed. My own OCR-capaity has only one limit, but it
> > > > is an extremely low one.
> > > So my first thought was to see what you're talking about. So I found
> > > BNF Gallica, and there's even an English
> > > versionhttps://www.bnf.fr/en but when I search for "Papal Zouave
> > > army 1860-70" I see:
> > >
> > >    "Votre recherche ne donne aucun résultat."
> > >
> > > which isn't in English and doesn't reveal the location of what
> > > you're talking about. So everything isn't in the subject, no!
> > > Please be more specific.
>
>
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