Re: OCR on copy&paste (NOT scanned) text

I had a look at FreeOCR I suppose it might be OK with simple PDFs but
Finereader it ain't!

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sangatsu wrote:
Graham,
Seems logical that PDF2Text doesn't support text boxes, so I may have
been thinking of PDF2Word, as the converted text did have text boxes
(as a matter of fact, if I remember correctly, almost every line was
in a text box). But that's a program I used 3-4 years ago and didn't
actually use more than a couple of times, as it required too much
work reformatting, although it did produce copy that was basically
identical to the PDF. I didn't see the point of having an editable
copy... that required as much work editing as re-retyping it. Moral:
I'll try FineReader, as you suggested. I also found an incredible
piece of software that seems to do the same as FineReader, and can
even open PDF files to perform OCR. It's free (I know, free stuff is
not normally worth more than it's price, but this one is something
else). It's called FreeOCR.
Sangatsu

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

I find it difficult to accept that PDF2Text formats as text boxes
when txt format does not support text boxes?
It does however produce a layout much as you see it in the PDF which
is not much fun when you have columns.
Are you sure you are not thinking of PDF2Word which formats in
frames? Better still use Finereader 9 with which you can exercise
much more control over the output.

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