Creating PDF from Image + hOCR data

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I am using tesseract to ocr images, now I would like to create a pdf out of the original OCRed image, plus the hOCR output I get from ocr engine. Can anyone please guide me in the right direction on how I can use Quick PDF Library to achieve this? Google didn't turn up anything.

Thanks.

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Shuaib Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 13 Location: Pakistan Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shuaib Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Creating PDF from Image + hOCR data Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 9:32AM
	Hi, I am using tesseract to ocr images, now I would like to create a pdf out of the original OCRed image, plus the hOCR output I get from ocr engine. Can anyone please guide me in the right direction on how I can use Quick PDF Library to achieve this? Google didn't turn up anything. Thanks.

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Mar 13 at 10:13PM
	Hi! With the draw-functionalities of QP you can insert the real text without having an eye on the layout. On a new layer you can use DrawImage to insert the text with layout over all. So you can work with textextraction as well as having the nice original layout. Here's the online reference: http://www.debenu.com/docs/pdf_library_reference/FunctionGroups.php Cheers and welcome here, Ingo

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 Mar 13 at 10:22AM
	Hello, QP.SetTextMode(3); will allow you to draw invisible text. The text will still be searchable. You will also need to use AddImageFromFile and DrawImage to create the visible part of the page. This link shows how import and draw an image correctly - http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/creating-a-multi-page-pdf-from-a-multipage-tiff_topic2125.html You will need to use Google to better understand the hOCR data correctly. Andrew.