On Jul 9, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Lynn Chadbourne wrote:
A friend gave me a CD of several files to convert to text.
Unfortunately, they are scanned image files, each with many pages.
I've tried a number of Mac and windoze programs but still end up
with a graphic of the text. Is there a reasonably
Part of it depends if it is a true PDF with the source text imbedded in
it somewhere or if it is a PDF of the scanned image.
Try opening it up with a text editor/viewer and look to see if you can
find some of the body text.
If you cannot, then it is a PDF-ified image and OCR is your only hope.