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curstpriest · 10-27-2010, 08:32 AM

Acrobat pro 9 is what I use... 300dpi scans and above generate spot on OCR with few errors, go recognize text with OCR. Then you can export it as txt/rtf/html (if it's just a simple book)

There's other software out there too, but if it's already a pdf, shrug.

New version of Nitro PDF has OCR so I've heard. There also may be other free software out there, not sure about the quality. Some more advanced OCR software I have used in the past allows fine tuning of OCR and imports of dictionaries and such. I think acrobat just uses standard dictionary for OCR correction, and it doesn't ask you to correct errors if it finds any

Good luck to you.

10-27-2010, 08:32 AM	#3
curstpriest Confused Posts: 402 Karma: 5538 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: Kindle DXG	Acrobat pro 9 is what I use... 300dpi scans and above generate spot on OCR with few errors, go recognize text with OCR. Then you can export it as txt/rtf/html (if it's just a simple book) There's other software out there too, but if it's already a pdf, shrug. New version of Nitro PDF has OCR so I've heard. There also may be other free software out there, not sure about the quality. Some more advanced OCR software I have used in the past allows fine tuning of OCR and imports of dictionaries and such. I think acrobat just uses standard dictionary for OCR correction, and it doesn't ask you to correct errors if it finds any Good luck to you.