[olug] Convert TIFF to PDF with OCR?

[Jay Woods]

On Friday 19 February 2010 03:48:15 pm Dan Linder wrote:
> I have a few large TIFF files (scanned documents) that have the text
> embedded in it (via an OCR) so that it can be searched.
> 
> Problem is, the files are very large (about 60MB total).
> 
> Since TIFF is un-compressed, I'd like to convert to a PDF.  My only
> converter is the print-to-PDF, but that looses the OCR text.

Personally, I'd redefine the problem and use gzip.
> 
> Any suggestions on making the conversion?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
>