Re: Looking for a miracle

["Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

You can use OCR tools to "rip" the text off images into either txt or
rtf files. I don't have a particular one to recommend.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>> I have no idea why it would be an image, the text should be preserved
>> (not much else though).
>
> Well...one reason why it would be an image is if someone scanned the
> hardcopy and then made a PDF of the scans. (I have a client who
> routinely sends me information this way.)

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