I didn't realise Acrobat Pro could OCR a document. Very useful feature. Thanks for passing that on Mark,
David On 29 January 2010 13:51, Mark Schofield <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- > > Tony Crooks > > <mailto: [email protected]> > > 53 Mendip Avenue > > Eastbourne > > BN23 8HP > > > > Mob: 07590508079 > > Tel: 01323-460789 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
