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Originally Posted by qtgemini26
I'm REALLY new at this, so please bear with me. I have a hard copy of a book, and when I scan it to myself it automatically goes to pdf format. Is there either 1) a way to scan it automatically into word format or 2) a way to convert pdf to a word document? If I could figure this out, I think it would save me a lot of time. I'm reading tons and tons of posts, and this seems to be the key that I'm missing.
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It sounds like you have an imaged base PDF, with image based PDF there is no way to edit the text because it's an image.
You need an application that performs OCR(Optical Character Recognition). Once you run the PDF through the OCR it will become text base and you can edit the file.
An example of a good OCR program is ABBY FineReader that converts PDF to Word. I've use this tool myself but it is quite expensive.
There are some free OCR programs out there but they are not very good. The best in class is FineReader.
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