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Subject:Re: OCR on PDF From:Scott Turner <sturner -at- airmail -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:36:55 -0600
I would try Acrobat 4.0.
After that, if the formmtting is not particularly important, extract the
text with GhostView/GhostScript.
Scott
"Elliott C. Evans" wrote:
>
> A potential customer sent us a PDF file of a 1711 page document
> which was not properly scanned. Instead of being searchable text,
> it seems that every page is one big graphic. Is there any way to
> run Acrobat's OCR software on an existing PDF file without
> printing it out and scanning it back in? Choosing "Document >
> Capture Pages" with the file open results in a error for every
> page. (Using Exchange 3.0 on Windows 98)
>
> --
> Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore+ -at- cmu -dot- edu
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