Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Combs, Richard
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

Re: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Combs, Richard wrote: 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

RE: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true image OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :) Perhaps you're right. But in fact, there's no _other_ kind of OCR program. OCR stands for optical character recognition. It's the process of converting an _image_ or

Re: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Combs, Richard wrote: Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true image OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :) Perhaps you're right. But in fact, there's no _other_ kind of OCR program. OCR stands for optical character recognition. It's the

Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Combs, Richard
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. OCR??? The PDF contains *real words*, not an *image* of the words!

Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Combs, Richard wrote: > 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. > > OCR??? The PDF contains

Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Combs, Richard
Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: > Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true "image" > OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :) Perhaps you're right. But in fact, there's no _other_ kind of OCR program. OCR stands for "optical character recognition." It's the process of converting an _image_

Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

2006-04-27 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Hi, Richard Combs, Richard wrote: > Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: > >> Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true "image" >> OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :) > > Perhaps you're right. But in fact, there's no _other_ kind of OCR > program. OCR stands for "optical character