hello, thanks for your reply. i've been wondering the same thing about that. i will try later and see if RTF does the trick. thanks again. MichaelOn 13/05/2013, at 9:28 AM, Paula <hobley_pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael > > I have been thinking about your quandary. I wonder whether the pdf has > columns in it, hense the reason it is converting to tables. I only say this > because when I scan journal articles and try and read them in MS Word, it > puts the text into 2 columns. Would saving the documents as rtf files and > reading them in text edit be an option? Text edit seems to know how to read > such documents and you don't have to try and navigate columns. > > Just my thoughts. > > Take care > > Paula > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Michael Marshall > Sent: Monday, 13 May 2013 8:51 AM > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: anyone on list use ABBYY fine reader for mac? > > hey, > thanks for getting back to me. > i know how to convert with FineReader that's fine. > what i was asking is if there is a way to configger how it convertes PDFs to > HTML files. > when ever it converts a PDF file to HTML it puts a hole bunch of tables in > the file when i know the PDF doesn't have them. > thanks for your help > Michael > On 13/05/2013, at 4:38 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> Hello Michael, >> >> I'm not sure what you mean by "scanning" in this context. If you have > PDFs, they are already scanned or created from text files. If they've been > scanned, just go to the PDF file, do VO-Shift-m to get a contextual menu, > then navigate down to Open with then right to the list of possible > applications and select ABBYY FineReader. You'll then be able to choose HTML > from the options available. >> >> If your PDF has been created from a text file, you might get better > results by taking a screenshot of each page and using FineReader to OCR each > one. >> >> It's normal that FineReader prefs are dimmed since they do not exist. >> >> I use FineReader regularly and it does an excellent job. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 12 May 2013, at 13:47, Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >>> hello listers, >>> the reason i'm asking if anyone usis fine reader for mac is because i'm > having a small problem. >>> i have a bunch of PDFs that i want to scan into HTML. >>> i tryed scaning one of the documents into HTML and it put a hole bunch of > tables in the document. >>> on windows when i scan the same documents with fine reader the tables are > not in the HTML document. >>> i tryed going into fine reader prefs on the mac but it's always dimmed. >>> if i can't solve the problem is there any other good programs for > scanning PDFs into HTML? >>> i hope i have got accross what i'm trying to say. >>> thanks for any help >>> >>> Michael >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum > at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure > that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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