Abby Fine Reader ((FREE))
Dorthy Huntress
The Abby Fine Reader software is a very useful tool because it is able to change scanned documents or documents that are in a pdf that cannot be edited into something that can be edited. This could either be a picture of text, which you scan, or a weirdly formatted PDF. Abby fine Reader can turn these materials into a word document, an MP3, or into Microsoft excel.
I also learned how to turn a pdf document into a word document through a tutorial on youtube at this address, =pKmtT7uD_xk . This is basically the same as changing a PDF into an excel. First open the document with Abby, then read the document with the Abby reader. Correct the mistakes that are made by distinguishing the text boxes, pictures and tables, found on the top of the page. Make sure to delete the extraneous things such as page numbers so that only the text is being read. (this is also important for creating an MP3) then reread the document again. Then save the document as a Microsoft word document.
I have a lot of images and what I want to do is to scan those images and get output in ms word file that can be edited later. For Windows, I have Abbyy fine reader. But I don't want to go back to Windows. Please tell me if there is any application that can do the same for me. Please help me in this.
On the panel, above the open picture, there are small rectangles that define the scan area. There are several of them, let's consider briefly the most common ones. Text is the main area on which the program will focus and will try to get text from the image. We will highlight this area in our example. After selection, the area is painted in a light green color. Then you can proceed to the next step. After all areas are set, click on the menu command to recognize. Fortunately, nothing else needs to be done in this step. The recognition time depends on the number of pages in your document and the power of the computer.
Hi Jim,
The best way I can do it is to save the document you want to convert, open finereader OCR, and it'll ask you want you want to do. Find the convert to word item, and select it. It'll bring you into a list of documents like your used to. Select the doc you want to convert, it'll do OCR on it and convert it. Then you just have to type the file name you want.
Hope this helps you and good luck. I haven't really used finereader in a while, but usually this works for me.