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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500 > "Maurice Howe" <[email protected]> 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. > > There may be a "clean" version out there but this exercise scared me off. > > > > I'll try Dave's Google Drive method. Thanks to all, but I thought this > > warning was in order. Hope it saves others a lot of grief. > > > > Cheers, > > Maurice Howe > > I'm retired. Go around me. > > The comments on the cnet freeocr page indicate such infestation. > > You could try Calibre, downloading only from > http://calibre-ebook.com/ > which will convert a PDF into text. Anything I have ever downloaded from > that calibre site has been clean. > > As a general rule I suggest only to download from an application's own > site. > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
