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Old 09-15-2012, 11:07 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Schauberger View Post
What I am trying to do is either extract the text and preserve formatting, or remove the image layer of my document.

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Did you ever figure this out? What system are you running on? Mac? PC? I was able to make the OCR'd text visible and remove the bitmap from your PDF file using a couple tools that I have (see attached). The OCR is excellent. PDF X-change does a nice job.
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Last edited by willus; 09-16-2012 at 12:57 AM. Reason: Used the more recent sample
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