Hi,
I am not sure how the documents were downloaded. They are a combination of narrative and financials and come from a website dealing with statistics on non-profit organizations. I need to examine all of the information contained in them, but am not sure what exactly you mean by running it through a OCR program. Would I save the PDF I downloaded from the site on to my computer and then open with another program? I have a very old version of Open Book, but have not used it in quite some time. I thought it was just for scanning documents and reading, not for reading PDF's that I download from another website. If there is a program I can download that will help me read these, is there possibly a free one somewhere? I have never had any issues with reading a PDF before, but will try something if it is not going to mean I have to purchase yet another program that I will use only occasionally. Not to mention I would rather spend the time on getting the information I need from the PDF rather than spending the time learning how to use a program to read the information I need that may or may not work. If that makes any sense. Thanks for your help. Daniel _____ From: Steve Sweeney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 12:03 PM To: 'Daniel Sweeney' Subject: RE: reading pdf's with "empty document" Hi, Is there any way you can find out how these documents were generated? A lot of people like to scan in documents and save them as .pdf files. If that is the case you are going to have to run OCR on them to convert them to readable text. This isn't a dawting task just not 100% accurate. Let me know, if I can help you I will. Take care -Steve Sweeney From: Daniel Sweeney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 11:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: reading pdf's with "empty document" Hi, I know this topic has been brought up before, but I did not realize how soon I might need to pay attention to it. I need to research a few pdf documents, but when I download them, trying to read them with Adobe Reader, they appear as "a scanned image requiring OCR or a malformed document". At any rate, I cannot read them with WE, and need some help on what I need to do to be able to access these documents. They do appear on the screen, but I cannot even get WE to read when I roll the mouse over the page either. Any suggestions? Daniel If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
