Thread: how to convert a scanned page from a book (looks like photo of page) to clean text?
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Old 11-23-2012, 09:19 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by neuvivlio View Post
ok, so, i ran the original scans through abbyy fine. deskewed all pages, then saved the pdf.
If you OCR'd the text, why would you need to deskew? Does ABBYY somehow save the text to match the skew of the original picture? I've never used ABBYY Finereader, so I'm just curious about how it works.
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