So I wonder who has tried more or less every program to export PDF to Word/HTML and compared results? Of course, corrections are a lot of work, but I am looking to minimize certain things:ġ. It's worth the 5-10 minutes' of time, compared to what the longer routes take. I would then suggest that you at least try the shortcut methods, to see if you can pull one out of the hat, too. I would not have ever thought that they existed in a decade, I've never seen it work before, but it did this time. So.there are, sometimes, shortcuts to the Abbyy scan/OCR process that can work. But it worked, and the resulting Word file was not bad at all. It wasn't the worst I've ever seen (a scanned copy of a multiply-faxed document-that was the worst), but it wasn't crisp, either, and the pages were not wildly straight. I was pretty gobsmacked because the source PDF was not wonderful. I mean, with a modicum of cleanup-not beyond the regular person-it could be entirely usable. Then, I exported the new PDF, which now had a text layer, to Word.Īnd I'll be dammed, but the resulting file is NOT horrible.

I'd started to tell the client that we'd have to OCR it again, yadda, but.on a flyer, I ran it through OCR, in Acrobat Pro. Of course, it turned out that the pdf is an image-only PDF, no text layer. Had it in print, so had that scanned, a few years back.

I wanted to add an interesting experience here, that I just dealt with, yesterday.Ī longish story as short as possible-I was contacted by a prospective client, who had typed his Opus on a Brother dedicated WP, back in the mid-'90s.

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