[Athen] question about PDF OCR

[Nettie Fischer]

Hi Norm,

I just did a little exploration and think this might help you in your quest.


I opened TextAloud software
Opened a pdf file from my hard drive use the Open pull-down menu in
TextAloud

The file appeared in the window

Copied text (Ctrl-C)
Opened a word document

Pasted the copied text into the document.

Voila, I had a  text file.

Nettie

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Prof Norm Coombs <norm.coombs at gmail.com>wrote:


> 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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