Bug 32249 - When importing PDF with text in it , it will be better to have a easy and fluent option to edit the imported Text
Summary: When importing PDF with text in it , it will be better to have a easy and flu...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Libreoffice (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3.0 RC1
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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: 38084 84712 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-12-08 22:51 UTC by grigoreflorin1985
Modified: 2014-10-23 17:31 UTC (History)
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Description grigoreflorin1985 2010-12-08 22:51:29 UTC
When i import a PDF with text in it I get editing function on separate paragraph one by one , what i need and want (like all users will expect to do)  to do it is to edit all paragraf like I do an office document normaly. Option to union the the paragraph to edit them flawless and easy at start ? Unificate all paragraph on page to be editable like a simple full form. It is time consuming to click and edit every paragrapf one at a time. Tryed union from the right click menu  on them and I get a plain graphic non editable txt form with the txt tool (aka big T icon).

Hope this small option will get until final release.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2010-12-09 08:58:10 UTC
I also sometimes wished such a feature, but I'm afraid that would cost too much manpower. Compared to other needs definitively not more than Importance "Medium", I doubt that that ever will be integrated.
Comment 2 Samuele Kaplun 2011-05-06 07:30:12 UTC
Hi,

I am a developer on a digital library software, and, aiming at supporting digital preservation, I was thinking of exploiting the wonderful PDF importer filter of LibreOffice to archive .odt document next to the original .pdf (as the .odt document should provide more value for future retrieval and the use of the document).

Indeed I also find this a very nice feature to have and it should be possible to implement it via some heuristic such as merging together subsequent lines that are not too far from each other (e.g. say that they are not more distant than the height of the character).

If no-one have time to work on it I'd be glad to give it a try in my spare time, if someone could be so kind to point me at the most appropriate source code files that would need to be touched.

Cheers!
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-06 08:17:14 UTC
@Samuele Kaplun:
That would be great. 

I'm afraid that won't be easy. I do not know how that works for other OS, but for WIN I have to install the "Oracle PDF Import Extension" from 
<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/pdf import>, what itself afaik uses XPDF <http://foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html> as text extractor.

That's all I can contribute.

BTW: Version is for the first version where the problem has been observed!
Comment 4 Samuele Kaplun 2011-05-06 08:34:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> @Samuele Kaplun:
> I'm afraid that won't be easy. I do not know how that works for other OS, but
> for WIN I have to install the "Oracle PDF Import Extension" from 
> <http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/pdf import>, what
> itself afaik uses XPDF <http://foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html> as text extractor.

From <http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/> I understand that finally this extension is part of the core LibreOffice source tree. Is this so?

> That's all I can contribute.
> 
> BTW: Version is for the first version where the problem has been observed!

Sorry for this!! That makes perfect sense!
Comment 5 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-06 10:50:21 UTC
> From <http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/> I understand that
> finally this extension is part of the core LibreOffice source tree. Is this so?

I thought so, too, but for my 3.4 I definitively had to download the extension. Pls see 
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35604#c6>
Comment 6 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:33:26 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
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Comment 7 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-12-23 23:33:18 UTC
Was New by good reasons. But it#s the question whether there is a realistic chance to get this enhancement.
Comment 8 vilpan 2013-05-01 18:41:14 UTC
*** Bug 38084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 sophie 2014-10-09 11:21:36 UTC
*** Bug 84712 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2014-10-23 17:31:40 UTC
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