Display a message if there's no text to OCR

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Loki@99
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Display a message if there's no text to OCR

Post by Loki@99 »

Hi,

It's a suggestion for PDXCE.

I tried to OCR a file and only noticed after some time that it was a comment object.

It will be great to display a message when there's no text to OCR.

Current behavior
Nothing happens after clicking OK which is confusing.
issue.gif

Additional info
Here's Foxit PDF message
image.png

Thanks for passing this to UI team,
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Re: Display a message if there's no text to OCR

Post by TrackerSupp-Daniel »

Hello, Loki@99

Thank you for the suggestion, I have passed this along to the team for consideration, but I cannot make any promises of implementation at this time.

RT#7069: FR: Show warning on no OCR'able content

Kind regards,
Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
Tracker Software Products (Canada) LTD

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Re: Display a message if there's no text to OCR

Post by Loki@99 »

Hi,

In addition to this, the same logic should apply when there's no watermark to remove as well.

image.png

Foxit PDF and Adobe Acrobat display the following message

Foxit PDF
image(1).png

Adobe Acrobat
image(2).png

Thanks for passing this,
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- RemoveAnnotationsWithEraser T#6903
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- AbnormalSpikes forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=179935&hilit=spikes#p179935
- ForceEraserPreview forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?t=42380
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Re: Display a message if there's no text to OCR

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello Loki@99,

I've just added the screenshots relating to the watermarks message to the same ticket, and updated it to request messages for both cases!

Kind regards,
Stefan
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