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Re: Magnifying pdf cleans irregularities?

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no.top.post@gmail.com wrote:

> By using gocr on:
> http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/sun.clarion2005.pdf
> I've been trying to extract the ASCII.
> 
> So far, using:
> pdftoppm -f 13 -l 13 -r 300 sun.clarion2005.pdf | gocr -o ppm13.300
> gives the best Optical Character recognition results.
> But it sees "k" as "h".
> 
> What confuses me, is that when I view with xpdf, the text
> looks as if it was printed by a bad-condition 1950 typewriter.
> 
> I especially remember "2004" where the 'bottoms' were
> badly un-aligned. But if I set xpdf to 'magnify' a section of
> the text, it looks clean, and of course gocr decodes perfectly.
> 
> I don't know exactly how the rendering works, but imagine
> that if the 'normal size' uses a bad quality font, and the
> magnified version uses a good quality font, that could
> explain what I'm seeing.
> 
> Since the information that 'the char IS a "k" and not
> a "h" is in the *.pdf file, and quiet independant of ANY
> rendering, and gocr can correctly decode BIG font,
> should I not expect to be able to get gocr to decode
> correctly, by <filtering it through a suiatble font>?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> == Chris Glur.

If you look at the PDF properties, you'll recognize that the fonts used are 
bitmapped type3 fonts (in a fairly high resolution, though). That leads to 
degraded rendering whenever recalculation of the bitmaps is required due to 
the different resolution of the canvas.

Helge

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