Re: Scanned Docs to Revise

[Ed Wurster <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>]

twriter01 wrote:

> Help! Suggestions on getting hundreds of scanned docs (.pdf) into MS Word
> format. These docs were hard copies scanned into .pdf format.

> Only options I can think of are re-typing everything or using
> voice-recognition. Any suggestions? Any technologies? TIA!

It sounds like you are looking for a solution that costs very little,
and can be implemented in a day or so.

Outsource it.

Or better yer, search the list archives. I did that and came up with a
tinyurl for you: http://tinyurl.com/9eomv.

OCR may be the way to go, if your existing equipment can handle it.
Look for a software package that can process the PDF and whatever
image format is contained within it.

If all of this sounds costly, takes too much time, etc., then outsource it.

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