RE: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-30 Thread Maurice Howe
Hmmm. McAfee's Stinger32 anti-malware pgm said that it was the FreeOCR.exe ITSELF that was the sort of all the grief. I took Stinger's word for it, and let Stinger delete the offending exe file. Looks like my original inquire created quite a stir. Sorry to have taken so many of you from more im

Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-30 Thread Dave.Mainwaring
It took me hours to clean up the trash that came with the free OCR, the program does work. On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500 > "Maurice Howe" wrote: > > > BEWARE !!! > > The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of ex

Re: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500 "Maurice Howe" wrote: > BEWARE !!! > The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of excess > baggage. After 3 attempts at System Restore, running Malware Bytes, Spybot, > RegCure and Stinger got rid of (what I hope is all of) 243 infections. > T

RE: PDF-to-ODT conversion

2013-11-30 Thread Maurice Howe
BEWARE !!! The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of excess baggage. After 3 attempts at System Restore, running Malware Bytes, Spybot, RegCure and Stinger got rid of (what I hope is all of) 243 infections. There may be a "clean" version out there but this exercise scared me o