OmniPage 15 is about the best OCR program out there, and it is nearly perfect., if you're going to OCR anything.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+convextech=alltel.net at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:37 PM To: David Levy; Framers List; Free Framers List Subject: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker) David Levy wrote: > I'm at the point where, if a client wants the work done in Word, I > build it in FM, PDF it, and then use an OCR program to convert it to > Word. The results are better than FM's "Save as" feature. <shudder /> OCR??? The PDF contains *real words*, not an *image* of the words! Why on earth would you want to treat it as an image? > Close my eyes, send it on, and I've never heard back from a client. No proofing? You do realize that OCR isn't perfect, don't you? > Anyone have other suggestions for getting from FM to Word? By far the best method is Mif2Go (http://www.omsys.com/dcl/mif2go_main.htm). Acrobat's Save As RTF is OK, too. For that matter FM's Save As should work better than OCR, assuming you have an appropriate Word template that uses styles with the same names as the FM formats. Heck, I'd rather save the whole thing as plain text, dump it into a Word doc, and retag it than use OCR. <shudder /> Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as convextech at alltel.net. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/convextech%40alltel.net Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
