[Okular-devel] Annotations: have to press each time for each annotation + two-column-texts

[kde2eran at tromer.org]

Pino Toscano wrote:
 >> if okular could recognize that the text is set in two columns
 >
 > That is not easy, as the text in every page is just a "bunch" of
 > characters and their position in it (so, not even lines!).
 > When we can distringuish the columns for text in pages, we'll be able
 > to do some stuff with that (eg smart text selection, correct text
 > highlighting, etc).

Sounds like the kind of layout analysis that OCRopus 
(http://code.google.com/p/ocropus) is designed to do. Can that be used here?

   Eran