There would probably be a VBA solution if Office 2008 supported VBA but that
isn't an option. I don't know if something can be done with Apple Script or
not, but you may get some additional response.
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Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
<tri...@officeformac.com> wrote in message
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While Acrobat Pro is a very powerful (and expensive) application, it
isn't the best OCR program for the Macintosh.
I use OmniPage Pro for OCR, and it is head and shoulders above any
other OCR program for the Macintosh. It maintains all formatting and
can create a perfect Word document.
While OmniPage Pro X has a suggested retail price of around $500:
OmniPage Pro X
http://WWW.NUANCE.COM/imaging/omnipage/omnipage-macintosh.asp
...I found out about this semi-secret deal, direct from Nuance!:
OmniPage Pro X for $99!
<http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/pd/productID.111905000/OfferID.
1177248709?
ClickID=ce7qv4axzwpsnkls7aqixllkxsqzaxxvikq&resid=lngSwwoBAkgAAE0or50AAAAV&rests=1249365496052>
or
The downsides to OmniPage Pro for the Macintosh are that since the
program was purchased from Caere by Nuance, support is now non-
existent. If you have a problem with the program, you can forget
about getting any sort of useful advice from Nuance.
Some folks have had a hard time getting OmniPage Pro installed. The
work-around is to boot up as "root" and to install the program.
The above is a pain, but OmniPage is worth the trouble if you really
need a good OCR program.
OmniPage Pro is perhaps the best of a bad job, in that what it gives you
will PRINT pretty much the same as the original.
However, when you try to "edit" the thing, or use the text somewhere else,
it's a disaster area: full of frames and lines and boxes and with text in
strange pieces.
Generally, I would simply recognise the text using whatever was the cheapest
OCR I could find. Then save the result as "Plain Text", which will get rid
of all the formatting entirely.
Then simply use Word's built-in abilities to re-create the document. You
can reformat a 100-page document from plain text to camera-ready final print
production standard in less than an hour if you have Word set up correctly:
that's what it is designed for.
But trying to keep the other guy's formatting and layout is an exercise in
frustration: the OCR program has to guess how he did that, and it can never
guess completely accurately.
Cheers
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