Re: Editing a String in Japanese
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:31:14AM -0500, Robert S. Kissel wrote:
> Question about pdfedit functionality:
>
> I currently am working on a project and wonder if I can use pdfedit to
> help it along.
>
[...]
>
> The version of pdfedit I have deployed is under Cygwin, under Windoze,
> and so, naturally, there's no hope of editing the Japanese strings
> there--but it occurs to me that, because
> of the complicated way Asian languages with big character sets are
> implemented in PDF, a language in which big character sets are a bit
> of an aftertthought, there might be no way to go about it, even if I
> go through the effort of setting up some native UNIX system with
> Japanese on it, and seeing if PDFEDIT might handle the Japanese
> strings (by some miracle) there.
Unfortunately, PDFedit has some issues with proper character encoding
so I doubt it will work.
>
> I wonder if anybody has any suggestions? It's a tricky business,
> because the OCR process often gets a character quite wrong--and so you
> sometimes don't even HAVE the character you need to put into the
> string in one of the font subsets embedded in the PDF. I'm just
> trying to think about approaches that don't involve me writing great
> big programs to take apart the PDF and put it together again.
I am sorry, but I am afraid that PDFedit will not help you much here.
>
> PDFEDIT would be the solution if I were dealing only with routine,
> West-European, OCR'd text. Open up the PDF, find the string that
> needs fixing, type in what's needed, save, ship, finished.
West-European should work because there are no special characters.
>
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