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Allow pdf input #30

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start Lector
2. File / Open Image
3. List of supported formats is .tif, .tiff, .png, .bmp

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Have .pdf as an option

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Lector 0.3

Please provide any additional information below.
This is an enhancement.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by grjas...@gmail.com on 17 May 2013 at 7:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
First of all Portable Document Format (PDF) is not image - it is a document.
If you need to OCR e.g. pdf was not created without text) you anyway need to 
convert it to image, and you can do it without Lector (e.g. tool 'convert' from 
Imagick package.

This could be implemented to Lector, but it increase Lector external 
dependencies and indeed it did not bring new functionality, so this is a low 
priority task.

Original comment by zdpos...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2014 at 10:08