TeX typesetting

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A place to share ideas, resources, tips, and hacks for Donald Knuths typesetting software TeX. All variants and formats like OpTeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt are welcome.

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Tool needed to convert scans from PDF to LaTeX (not merely OCR). Libs already exist. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/tex_typesetting

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/42362772

The MS Windows and Apple boot-licking communities have ABBYY FineReader. It does not produce LaTeX but it’s very slick and useful, as I mention here.

There is a linux CLI version but it’s not FOSS. It’s apparently not even software. It seems to just be a client that depends on a cloud service. So you have to trust them with your data and pay them too. Fuck all that, obviously.

IIUC, the library is FOSS 🎉

But what uses that NeoML library? If ABBYY’s FineReader uses it, then it’s the right logic.. so the hardest work may be done already. We just need a tool to use it. Docs are here -- and they’re a bit over my head.

A FOSS app could perhaps use NeoML and produce LaTeX output, which can then be edited.

Would someone please make that for me? 🙏

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