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OCR'd PDF to EPUB/TXT/etc. not copying text over (text under image).
I made a searchable OCR'd PDF in ABBYY with the "save text under image" setting (this is what OCR software usually defaults to, so that it displays the original scan in case the OCR made a mistake). Whenever I try to convert the PDF in Calibre, though, it ignores the included OCR'd text and just spits out the original images. How can I resolve this? I'm able to copy and paste the OCR'd text, so I know it's not a problem with the PDF. Calibre just isn't seeing the text for some reason.
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I have found some pdfs that have this problem. Calibre uses the pdftohtml tool to pull the text out of a pdf, and for some reason that can fail. Take the pdf out of Calibre and try using the pdftohtml tool from the command line and you get nothing, but try the pdftotext tool and you usually do get the text. I've never seen an answer on why some text that is definitely there does not respond to pdftohtml. Another example of the evil behaviour of pdfs!
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