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Counting words in scanned pdf files
Thread poster: Mihailolja
Mihailolja
Mihailolja
United Kingdom
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Ukrainian to English
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Oct 13, 2004

Hello

I know the topic of counting words in a pdf file has been discussed extensively but my problem is slightly different in that many pdf files I deal with are scanned documents and all word count software that I have tried fails to see ANY words whatsoever.

Any cure?

thanks

mihailo
 
Rahi Moosavi
Rahi Moosavi  Identity Verified
Canada
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English to Persian (Farsi)
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Paper Capture Feature Oct 14, 2004

Hi

Have you tried the Paper Capture Feature in Adobe Acrobat? It's an OCR in a sense and works good only if your documents are scanned from properly printed material and not handwriting. Using Paper Touch Up, you could have a rtf file which could be counted easily.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Rahi
 
Mihailolja
Mihailolja
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:57
Ukrainian to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Thanks to both of you Oct 25, 2004

Hi there

I managed to download a trial version of the abbyy software and it is excellent , I tried a few others and it seems to be the only one that can actually convert a SCANNED pdf. The others all report "notext"

Best Wishes

Mihailo
 


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