I see in the changelog "Added support for importing any PDF (requires an additional download, can be disabled by NoUpdatePrompt or DisableGenericPdfImport in appsettings.xml)".
Thank you for adding this!!!
Can you elaborate on this "additional download"? It didn't specify when I was prompted to download. Also is there more info on exactly what image formats are supported inside these external PDFs?
I have an external pdf and it can now be successfully imported into NAPS. The native image format inside this original PDF (as reported by pdfimages) is PBM. I notice even in v5.5.0 I cannot import the individual PBM pages directly into NAPS but if I save the PDF out of NAPS and rerun pdfimages it still reports PBM, unchanged from original which is fantastic as previously when I did this by hand (since NAPS doens't support JPEG2000) I had to convert from PBM to JPG and even at the highest quality there was considerable loss.
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I see in the changelog "Added support for importing any PDF (requires an additional download, can be disabled by NoUpdatePrompt or DisableGenericPdfImport in appsettings.xml)".
Thank you for adding this!!!
Can you elaborate on this "additional download"? It didn't specify when I was prompted to download. Also is there more info on exactly what image formats are supported inside these external PDFs?
I have an external pdf and it can now be successfully imported into NAPS. The native image format inside this original PDF (as reported by pdfimages) is PBM. I notice even in v5.5.0 I cannot import the individual PBM pages directly into NAPS but if I save the PDF out of NAPS and rerun pdfimages it still reports PBM, unchanged from original which is fantastic as previously when I did this by hand (since NAPS doens't support JPEG2000) I had to convert from PBM to JPG and even at the highest quality there was considerable loss.
I'm not convinced OCR is working in the above situation. Opened ticket https://sourceforge.net/p/naps2/tickets/366/
Anyways, back to the question above about what exactly the additional install is and what it supports?
Last edit: Tony Jones 2017-11-10
OCR should now work (on pages that don't already have text).
The additional download is Ghostscript which is needed to generate thumbnails, previews, and images for OCR.
Yes, works well now. Thanks. Familar with Ghostscript. Perhaps make the dialog state that is what it's downloading?