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அனுப்புநர்: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: வியா., 10 செப்., 2020, முற்பகல் 9:13
Subject: Create Searchable Tamil PDF using PDF/A in libreoffice writer
To: <ilugc(a)freelists.org>
Creating searchable Tamil PDF is a long time dream for Tamil People.
For so many reasons like PDF standards, Unicode Issues with Tamil,
Issues with rendering engines, etc, we could not copy/paste any tamil
content from PDF files.
We have a issue for this here
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/78
Today morning, I was reading this issue and explored about PDF files.
Found a PDF/A standard. It promised to give Unicode support. Is it
means a PDF/A file in Tamil is searchable?
YES. YES. YES.
Tested this using Libreoffice Writer and yeah. It works. I can copy
the tamil text as it is and even do a search within the PDF.
Here is a demo video on this in Tamil.
https://youtu.be/Ug7UM_da7m8
Read more about it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
https://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf20/en/resources/pdf-iso-standards/10-most-impo…
https://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PDFA_in_a_Nutshell_211.pdf
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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