Spaces between characters in ocr'ed pdfs

Question

DavBE opened this issue 7 years ago · 2 comments

Hi,

Every PDF file I ocr in Alfresco contains spaces between each character.

Example : the word "client" becomes "c l i e n t".

Maybe it's a pdfsandwich issue but as it is called from alfresco-simple-ocr I though i would ask here. Is there anything I can do to solve this ?

System is Ubuntu 16.06 x64, running Alfresco 5.2.0 (re21f2be5-b22)

Regards,

David

Answer 1 · 2017-12-01T15:40:24.000Z

If you are using pdfsandwich switch to OCRmyPDF.

Try also to make the transformation from command line to detect if the problem is inside or outside Alfresco.

Answer 2 · 2017-12-01T15:58:01.000Z

Hi Angel,

Thanks for your reply.

I ran pdfsandwich on the command line and the issue persisted. I installed OCRmyPDF and no more spaces!

Thank you very much.

David