[Athen] question about PDF OCR

[Ron Stewart]

Hi Norm, you might also want to try the OCR engine in Acrobat Pro or even
the Microsoft Office Document Scanner . For basic docs they seem to work
just fine.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:43 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] question about PDF OCR

HI Norm,

Do you already have Kurzweil 1000?  If so, K1000 will do this for you.

Al 

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Prof Norm Coombs
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:35 AM
To: athen-athenpro.org
Subject: [Athen] question about PDF OCR

I know there is software that will take a PDF document and give me a
different file type.  My specific question however is this.
Occasionally I come across a PDF document that is image only.  Is there
simple software without my purchasing Acrobat or such complex
applications that will take a PDF image file, run OCR on it and extract
the text either as a txt file or Doc format?

I don't want to buy or learn some complex application?

Norm




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