On 16/11/2011 10:29 AM, Owen, Clint wrote: > OCR is the only possible solution, as there is no text information in a > JPG. > I would convert the manual to PDF, then try the built in OCR in a recent > version of Acrobat or a dedicated tool, such as Omnipage.
I have found Acrobat's OCR to be cumbersome and not particularly accurate. Older versions of MS Word (up to 2007) included Document Imaging in the Office > Tools menu; apparently OneNote that comes with current Office installations does OCR automatically on any image containing text: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/10/01/Free-OCR-software_3F00_-You-may-already-have-it_2E002E002E00_.aspx http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/ HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
