Re:USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in...
by a1369209993 on Friday August 26, 2022 @09:12PM
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> for PDF you need highly specialized software packages to do this.
Not really, or at least not all that specialized. You need:
a: a pdf-to-raster-image converter (ie any working PDF viewer, plus maybe the X server it talks to)
b: a reasonably decent OCR system capable of scanning tables (definitely nontrivial, but hardly "highly specialized" since things other than PDFs display data in tables).
Not really, or at least not all that specialized. You need:
a: a pdf-to-raster-image converter (ie any working PDF viewer, plus maybe the X server it talks to)
b: a reasonably decent OCR system capable of scanning tables (definitely nontrivial, but hardly "highly specialized" since things other than PDFs display data in tables).