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DSpider · 03-10-2013, 05:23 PM

Scan Tailor is an excellent tool. Google it. It's available on Windows and Linux, so you may need VirtualBox/VMware/Parallels/etc., and a copy of Windows XP or Ubuntu. Maybe that will get you the desired result with whatever OCR program you currently use. The top OCR-ing program right now is ABBYY FineReader Professional 11, but it doesn't do layout. Think of it as an "extraction" tool. You get the text and the images which you then process using the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word, or various other open-source tools. Vectorizing the graphics and tracking down the fonts is an optional step, which brings a very nice touch to the final result. Don't forget to proofread it at least once.

03-10-2013, 05:23 PM	#2
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	Scan Tailor is an excellent tool. Google it. It's available on Windows and Linux, so you may need VirtualBox/VMware/Parallels/etc., and a copy of Windows XP or Ubuntu. Maybe that will get you the desired result with whatever OCR program you currently use. The top OCR-ing program right now is ABBYY FineReader Professional 11, but it doesn't do layout. Think of it as an "extraction" tool. You get the text and the images which you then process using the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Word, or various other open-source tools. Vectorizing the graphics and tracking down the fonts is an optional step, which brings a very nice touch to the final result. Don't forget to proofread it at least once.