Some of you may benefit from this free OCR service.
I recently found an online OCR service which will easily convert PDFs
into readable text when the PDFs contain scanned images of text and
Adobe only comes back with blank pages.
The website is
http://www.newocr.com/
The site works well with Window-Eyes. There's initially one
unlabelled button which is the browse button to locate the file to be uploaded.
Once located, there is a labelled button to upload it for OCR
processing. The process takes just a few seconds.
Once uploaded, the next webpage presents a simple interface:
1. a drop down list of numberred pages,
2. a "Repeat Recognition" button,
3. "Upload a new document" button,
4. a read-only edit box already containing the text of the first page.
it's easy to copy the text over to another application.
The only inconvenience is how one gets the subsequent pages of text.
use the drop down list to select the next page number and then use
the button labelled "Repeat Recognition."
This refreshes the read-only edit box with that page's text.
It produced a very few of the common OCR errors. These are flagged
with a question mark.
Overall, I'm really pleased with the ease of getting good results
from otherwise unreadable PDFs.
HTH,
Jeff
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