Anyone have a simple and reliable way of converting a scanned .pdf into a Word or text document? Need to convert .pdf monument summary sheets into an ascii file that can be imported into a drawing. I'm not a big fan of hand punching in numbers with my fat sausage fingers if I can help it.
TIA
> Anyone have a simple and reliable way of converting a scanned .pdf into a Word or text document?
Simplest is do it with adobe, providing you have the full version but you probably already knew that.
Jim
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> Anyone have a simple and reliable way of converting a scanned .pdf into a Word or text document?
http://www.onlineocr.net/ . Limitation is that it only does one page at a time without registering.
Acrobat Standard is a worthwhile investment. Nuance's Pdf Converter also does a good job at this for less money.
I have the full version, but it's doing a really poor job of converting. Was hoping there's a better mouse trap out there for this sort of thing.
Looks promising. I'll give that a try. Thanks
That works slick Norman. Way better than Adobe. Was able to get into .xlsx format with everything where it needs to be. You da man.
I have found that horizontal alignment is very critical, so, in those cases, .. I save out as a tiff then open in PhotoChop and straighten out and remove background fuzz if need and covert back to Acrobat for conversion of text. Then again sometimes it is just easier to re-type
Seems to be issues discerning 8 from 6. No getting out of breaking out the straight edge and proofing them all, but beats hand entering numbers until I'm x-eyed.
We used the free online ocr until we finally bought ABBYY finereader.
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/
Best OCR out there IMO and also converts PDF plats to TIFFs of any size
