On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Dan wrote: > Can anyone recommend a free or very inexpensive decent OCR software > package, that can pull text out of jpg files? Pref that runs on > Tiger. > > My housemate is digging thru scanned type-written census records. > I'm thinking it might help to be able to pluck a few pages with > particular keywords on them... > > Thx, > - Dan.
Adobe Acrobat Pro has the capability. Maybe you already have it? I believe you'd need to make a pdf file of the images, then Paper Capture. I'm still using Acrobat 6 Pro under Leopard. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
