' As the market shifts to mobile devices, Adobe is investing in bringing its runtime technologies to new hardware and operating systems. I can see the reason why it has not affected even a slight interest in this beautiful technology and is making its success mark with many successful apps. AIR is progressing manifolds and I clearly envision it, why Adobe has taken such step. Then why I am digging it again? because in spite of all the negativity spread around and future of AIR is written off by many Gurus, nothing happened of such kind. Though this is a year old story and Google can give at least a million links of this discussion. This fumed a lot of discussion and added a dent on Flex & AIR path of success. Mac, Windows and Linux.However in a strategic move Adobe decided to discontinue further release of Adobe AIR on Linux. Adobe AIR is available on all popular desktop platforms i.e. In 2005 with release of Flex SDK and later Adobe AIR the Runtime Environment made a huge impact on how information can be expressed on internet and desktop application. We see Flash player installed in 99% of desktops and gradually making its mark in unconventional platforms like Mobile & Smart TVs. See pdf2searchablepdf -h for the help menu and more options and examples.Macromedia and Adobe revolutionize the interactive web space by providing Flash player based technologies.

It has no python dependencies, as it's currently written entirely in bash. You'll now have a pdf called mypdf_searchable.pdf, which contains searchable text!ĭone. # Make an entire directory of images into a single searchable PDF:

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 on and on Ubuntu 20.04 Nov. Source code: Instructions to install & use pdf2searchablepdf: All intermediate temporary files are automatically deleted when the script completes. It uses pdftoppm to convert a PDF into a bunch of TIFF files, then it uses tesseract to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on them and produce a searchable PDF as output. Give it a shot it works great! It is a simple wrapper around tesseract. I had this same problem so I wrote this over the weekend.

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