Re: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)
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 words*, not an *image* of the words! Why on earth would you want to treat it as an image? Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true image OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :) While I have no reason to transfer from FrameMaker to Word, I do use a program from Nuance (formerly Scansoft) called PDF Converter 3 to bring in standard PDF files into Word. This works directly on the PDF file, not an image. And, PDF Converter 3 does provide pretty darn good results for this conversion process. Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)
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 _representation_ of a character into the ASCII (or ANSI or UTF...) character that it appears to represent. Pedants 'r Us :-) 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)
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 process of converting an _image_ or _representation_ of a character into the ASCII (or ANSI or UTF...) character that it appears to represent. Yes, sorry, that is what I meant too. Meaning he is *not* doing a true OCR from an image - just converting from the PDF file with some software (like I do). At least, I hope that is the case! Going to Word from a scanned-in image (printed from the PDF) would be quite an unusual way to do this! Pedants 'r Us :-) :) :) Z ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
