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Subject: pdf & O.C.R ?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 07:49:37 +0000 (UTC)
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I'm confused and disturbed that xpdf of:
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.Computer.pdf
  is perfect to the pixel, with maximum magnification [400%],
  which is expected, since it's computer-font generated, whereas:
http://www.northernlaw.co.za/images/stories/files/actsandbills/COMPANY%
20LAW%20ACT.pdf
  shows blotchy and fibers as if it's a photo-of-a-paper-copy.

And scanned copies of papers are apparently normal.

BUT!! How is it that xpdf allows me to extract the text, via mouse-copy
from COMPANY%20LAW%20ACT.pdf ?
That would mean that the mouse-driver is doing O.C.R.   ?!
And mc's viewer [which uses <pdftotext> ] reads this text.

Is this some new O.C.R. which I could use on jpg-ed pages of text?

==Thanks for any answers.