Spellcheck for pdf files

Question

Is there any utility or command on Ubuntu for checking spelling errors in a pdf file? Or a way to integrate spellcheck in Evince?

Solution

You can use LibreOffice with the pdf-import extension, or use Abiword to edit your pdf documents with a spell checker.

The extension can be installed on the command line with:

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-pdfimport

And Abiword can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install abiword

Comments

[zouve]

Thank you. Could you tell me where I can download pdf-import extenion for LibreOffice. I have tried google search, but unable to get any link.

[Jason Southwell]

@kkp: it's in the software center.

[Jason Southwell]

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[zouve]

I am testing the options. When I imported a pdf file in LibreOffice, some words are combined such as "theperformance" and therefore showing several spelling errors.

[Sander Heinsalu]

Abiword also distorts while importing: some pairs of words are combined into a single word, and math notation is imported as combinations of letters and symbols, e.g. Fv for $F_v$.

[Jason Southwell]

@SanderHeinsalu have you tried with an up to date copy of LibreOffice? Try opening the file in Draw.