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How can I add invisible searchable text (from my ocr engine) to the image in a pdf in iOS? [closed]

I used the ocr client tesseract to generate ocr text and location data in an hocr file. I'd like top create a pdf from the images with an invisible layer of text from tesseract embeedded within it. I ...
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Extracting data point locations from a postscript/pdf plot [closed]

There are a number of tools available for manually extracting the x/y coordinates of points in a data plot, such as WebPlotDigitizer and digitize. They work well when there are only a few ...
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How do I capture a bunch of web pages or pdfs found online and store them in a database on my machine? [closed]

I am doing a research project and I need to create a database (initially just on a local machine), of a bunch of web pages and pdfs, probably thousands of them but not likely to be e.g. 100,000, of ...
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Why are custom PDF download options preferred over ctrl+p?

Why do I, as a developer, have to go through so much trouble developing PDF download options for my clients when everyone in the world can simply hit Ctrl+P and life is good? The current issue I'm ...
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Best Technique to build PDF Reader [closed]

I am developing a website, where a user can browse e-books (in pdf) and read it on my website (something like scribd.com or issuu.com). I am using the Zend framework (PHP), javascript (jquery, ...
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Convert plain text to a pdf template

I have some articles (more than 200 pages) in plain text. It needs to be converted to an given PDF markup. I got some Photoshop files for the headers for every page and a list of requirements for the ...
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How to convert an html page to pdf using javascript? [closed]

I am developing a project, In that I have a receipt page (this is the html page that I want to convert it into pdf) and I've to print it. While printing that page alignments are not coming properly. ...
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Mac Developer Library Download

I'm not sure which SE site this belonged on, so I figured I'd try this one. Whenever I browser the Mac Developer Library at developer.apple.com, on the top right of the window, there's a link for a ...
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PDF help in the software manual

Just need a bit of advice here, if we embed Adobe Reader as an activex control, as well as have a fallback PDF viewer (in case the user doesn't have Adobe Reader installed) would it be wiser to put ...
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application architecture with one or more PDFs

I am writing an iPad application. The main view of the application will be a PDF. I have made considerable progress in parsing out the contents of the PDF. The application will also have at least ...
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Is XML required for this?

I am writing a desktop application in Java, which has all of the Airband radio frequencies for the UK in it. I would like to make this frequency database downloadable so people can print it. Would it ...