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diff --git a/app-text/pdfsandwich/metadata.xml b/app-text/pdfsandwich/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6bfdb50e39db --- /dev/null +++ b/app-text/pdfsandwich/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer> + <email>tomka@gentoo.org</email> + </maintainer> + <longdescription> +pdfsandwich generates "sandwich" OCR pdf files, i.e. pdf files which +contain only images (no text) will be processed by optical character +recognition (OCR) and the text will be added to each page invisibly +"behind" the images. + +pdfsandwich is a command line tool which is supposed to be useful to +OCR scanned books or journals. It is able to recognize the page layout +even for multicolumn text. + +Essentially, pdfsandwich is a wrapper script which calls the following +binaries: convert, cuneiform, gs, and hocr2pdf. It is known to run on +Unix systems and has been tested on Linux and MacOS X. It supports +parallel processing on multiprocessor systems. +</longdescription> + <upstream> + <remote-id type="sourceforge">pdfsandwich</remote-id> + </upstream> +</pkgmetadata> |