What a great bunch! Many thanks to all the kind people who responded regarding my search for something to convert a scanned PDF to text for Mac.
Carole, special thanks to you for acting in my absence by explaining the situation and even sending a page of the pdf. Much appreciated! And a big thank you to Mark for offering to do it for me. I'll contact you off-group, Mark. Regards, Gilly On 29 Jan 2010, at 13:51, Mark Schofield 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]. > 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.
