Chinese Characters as GRAPHICS vs common FONTS

[Guest guest]

Hi All, & Alwin & Bob,

 

Alwin & Bob wrote re: PDF Characters.

 

> They may have used graphics in which case there is no character

> there (in the sense of an entity in a font) just a raster (dot)

> image [bob] ... and ... It is just that, you can't copy it and

> retaining a coded character. You can copy the character graphic

> image using the Acrobat snapshot modus [Alwin]

 

That is the problem with pdf [or any other] graphic character!

 

If it is not in a common font, such as Arial Unicode MS, it cannot

be copied into an MS Word search, or a Google search! ... At least

I have not found a way to copy it. Can this be done, i.e. to convert

a graphic into a common font?

 

 

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[Guest guest]

My experience is that you must use OCR (optical character recognition)

software if you have graphics rather than a common font. From the document

creation side though, you can in fact create a PDF that uses Chinese

characters as actual fonts, not graphics. Specifically, I know with Adobe

Acrobat version 6 you can install the Asian language option which

facilitates the creation of Chinese language PDFs. I created a PDF tonight

from Microsoft Word and was able to do a google search via cut and paste

using the PDF. I can post that sample file if you'd like. It is a

selection sent me recently regarding yu1 xue4 and xue4 yu1.

 

Tim Sharpe

 

 

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Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:35 PM

 

Chinese Characters as GRAPHICS vs common FONTS

 

Hi All, & Alwin & Bob,

 

Alwin & Bob wrote re: PDF Characters.

 

> They may have used graphics in which case there is no character there

> (in the sense of an entity in a font) just a raster (dot) image [bob]

> ... and ... It is just that, you can't copy it and retaining a coded

> character. You can copy the character graphic image using the Acrobat

> snapshot modus [Alwin]

 

That is the problem with pdf [or any other] graphic character!

 

If it is not in a common font, such as Arial Unicode MS, it cannot be copied

into an MS Word search, or a Google search! ... At least I have not found a

way to copy it. Can this be done, i.e. to convert a graphic into a common

font?

 

 

Best regards,

 

Email: <

 

WORK : Teagasc Research Management, Sandymount Ave., Dublin 4, Ireland

Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0]

 

HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland Tel : 353-; [in the

Republic: 0] WWW :

http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm

 

 

[Guest guest]

Only through the use of a graphics program with an OCR, (charactor reading

program).

 

Can this be done, i.e. to convert

> a graphic into a common font?

>

>

> Best regards,

>

> Email: <@e...>

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