Adobe Acrobat Pro can OCR a document and the text can be exported.

Gilly, if you want me to do this for you please email me off-group:

[email protected]

Best wishes
Mark

Mark Schofield, Hove


On Jan 29, 1:44 pm, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 Jan 2010, at 13:19, Carole Cornish wrote:
>
> > I have attached just 1 page of the pdf - it is a 206 page A5 document Gilly 
> > is wanting as text.
>
> > She had this scanned and maybe she did not ask for OCR.
>
> Carole,
>
> The PDF wasn't created with an option to make text selectable, which is the 
> case with most modern scanning software that offers PDF as an output choice. 
> So the only way of getting at the text would be using an OCR product that 
> supports PDF as an input format. I don't know of any other than possibly 
> PDF2Office. The Personal edition for OS X is $59 -  
> http://www.recosoft.com/products/index.htmI would check that it does work for 
> a specimen before buying.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
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