non-searchable PDF, convert to TIFF, ocr back to searchable PDF
te...@intex.com
file from which I'd like to extract its text. Can I do the following
convert the non-searchable PDF file to a TIFF file
use OCR to convert the TIFF file to a searchable PDF
?
If so, how effective is this method and what program(s) would you
recommend for each step? There seem to be many that will convert
from PDF to TIFF. I would think that Adobe Acrobat would be able to
do this easily.
Thanks,
Ted
Lutrin
> convert the non-searchable PDF file to a TIFF file use OCR to convert
> the TIFF file to a searchable PDF
[...]
truely speaking, you can do directly an ocrzation with
*Abbyy Finereader 8*
- http://www.abbyy.com/
if you want use only freeware software, you can use
*ghostscript*
- http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/current/
with its graphical frontend
*Gsview*
- http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm
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