[Athen] question about PDF OCR

[Prof Norm Coombs]

Thanks but I don't have that.  Norm
At 08:41 AM 6/22/2009, you wrote:

>Norm,

>If you have an OCR package such as OmniPage or FineReader these can already

>read the PDF as an image source and run OCR on them.

>This has been my experience of being the best/most accurate way.

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>Subject: [Athen] question about PDF OCR

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>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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