Handling PDF files Thread poster: aruna yallapragada
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I find it difficult handling documents that have been scanned
as images. What is the best / fastest / easisest way to
convert them into editable word files? Is there any software
that does this conversion?
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Andrej 
Local time: 07:59
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German to Russian
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I believe this topic has been discussed here many many times. Please try to search the forums.
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Thank you. I did go through the forum. But it was not of
much help. I do have ABBY Finereader. Maybe I just don't knoiw how to go about it. I will try again.
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I got a scanned in document just yesterday and Omnipage did a pretty good job.
It still leaves me with text boxes, but as long as I can trados inside these, I don't mind.
Aruna, you need to fiddle around with this progam and try various ways till you get the required results.
So don't give up on ABBYY Finereader too easily. I don't know it, but many translators say, it's a good program.
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Brandis (X)
Local time: 06:59
English to German
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| a possible work around | Jul 7, 2007 |
Halo!
Convert images using acrobat reader 8.0, take a print, rescan and then do the OCR. The editing time involved is lot lesser and you get more clear processable output. Well this applies only if the source file is a picture like a printed brochure converted into an image using scanning process. Such images cannot be effectively OCRed with any known OCR software effectively, there is still much manual editing work involved before getting a satisfactorily processable file in word. Brandi... See more Halo!
Convert images using acrobat reader 8.0, take a print, rescan and then do the OCR. The editing time involved is lot lesser and you get more clear processable output. Well this applies only if the source file is a picture like a printed brochure converted into an image using scanning process. Such images cannot be effectively OCRed with any known OCR software effectively, there is still much manual editing work involved before getting a satisfactorily processable file in word. Brandis
[Edited at 2007-07-07 16:15] ▲ Collapse
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Natalie
Poland
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MODERATOR SITE LOCALIZER | Hi Brandis, I disagree with your suggestion | Jul 7, 2007 |
Images are opened directly in ABBY Finereader and converted to the text. Why on earth converting, printing, rescanning?
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VIBOL KEO
Local time: 11:59
Member (2009)
English to Khmer (Central)
| PDF, Scanned, and Conversion?! | Jul 9, 2007 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Trying TextBridge and/or pdf2word softwares may be helful.
Good Luck!
Vibol Keo
[Edited at 2007-07-09 11:50]
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| Anything better than Abbyy? | Sep 19, 2007 |
Can anyone suggest better solution than Abbyy? I'm using it for quite some time now, but it gave me headache more than once. For examaple, if I have tables with pictures inside, I find it impossible to have the correct output directly. Drawing a picture block inside table block never produces picture in the output. Usually I have to first convert table without picture, then picture without table, then insert picture into document with the table. When I have a small document that's just a minor t... See more Can anyone suggest better solution than Abbyy? I'm using it for quite some time now, but it gave me headache more than once. For examaple, if I have tables with pictures inside, I find it impossible to have the correct output directly. Drawing a picture block inside table block never produces picture in the output. Usually I have to first convert table without picture, then picture without table, then insert picture into document with the table. When I have a small document that's just a minor thing, but recently I had two pdf files with totally around 700 pages, so it was nigthmare now and again. Also if the text blocks are too big, sometimes bullets and such things disappear from the output, though they were displayed correctly in the text window. Messed up fonts and strange tabulations too are also a bother.
However, I haven't found better option yet, those smaller convertors are completely useless most of the time, and Omnipage didn't give me enough editing options. Abbyy's result I can at least correct manually. ▲ Collapse
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| Depends on what you want.... | Sep 22, 2007 |
Abby Finereader is a mess to use, but is invaluable if the PDF text has been scanned or faxed and is therefore stored within the PDF as an image, due to its built-in OCR.
Alternatively, if the PDF text is actually stored as text (you can check by trying to select the text in the PDF file), a much better conversion tool is Solid Converter (http://www.solidpdf.com/). It is not very expensive in its ... See more Abby Finereader is a mess to use, but is invaluable if the PDF text has been scanned or faxed and is therefore stored within the PDF as an image, due to its built-in OCR.
Alternatively, if the PDF text is actually stored as text (you can check by trying to select the text in the PDF file), a much better conversion tool is Solid Converter (http://www.solidpdf.com/). It is not very expensive in its standard version and works like a breeze, maintaining the layout much better than Abby Finereader once you know how it works. It does not convert text stored as an image to text, however. Dowload a trial version from their web site and test it yourself. ▲ Collapse
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