Abby Fine reader does this also.
Stewart
At 03:54 PM 2/1/2009, you wrote:
Some/many .pdf files are scanned, and therefore total
bitmaps. There is no text information in them at all. If you want
to extract text information from the .pdf file, the only recourse is
to OCR it. Some OCR programs will process a .pdf file
directly. Or, as someone else has said, you could print the
document and then scan/OCR the paper copy. OmniPage Pro is stated
to have the capability to OCR .pdf files directly, but I've never
tried to do that. I have used OminPage Pro OCR in conjunction with
scanning a paper document, although not recently.
Kleptomania 2.6 from http://www.structurise.com/ is a program
(systray utility) for OCRing small amounts of text. But it has to
"learn" the fonts that it will be OCRing. So if the .pdf document
uses a font that isn't installed on your computer, you will not get
good results. I use Kleptomania occasionally to capture (copy)
error messages when the Windows copy command doesn't
work. Structurise has been in business for a long time. I have
Kleptomania 1.0 from 1998.
All of the above only for making legal copies, of course.
Fred Holmes
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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