[eurotrash]

Hiya,

Hope this is the correct forum to post in. I need a bit of help with ABBYY FineReader.

Basically I scanned a book using OpticBook 3600. Then I used ABBYY 9 Pro for OCR. Everything's going decently enough, but this book (on writing) contains text with strikethrough font. I can see the strikethrough in the OCR'd text, and if I save it as a Word document it keeps the strikethrough. However, if I save it directly as a PDF, it removes the strikethrough. (I use Acrobat Pro 9 as my PDF application.)

One option would be to save my book as a Word document and then convert it to PDF. I tried this and it retains the strikethrough on conversion to PDF, but this isn't a good option because Word doesn't keep the original formatting, i.e. it squishes letters and doesn't keep text on a straight line in certain places.

If I save it as PDF, the structure is perfect; i.e. letters are spaced just as in the book, straight columns in all the nooks and crannies. Of course, in that case I lose my strikethrough.

So ideally I'm hoping that someone here will know a way that the strikethrough can be retained when saving to PDF. However, I googled it and it doesn't look promising.

Another thing I thought of doing is saving as PDF, and then editing the PDF with some other application to add the strikethrough. Acrobat has no strikethrough option, so I'd have to use another program. However, Word doesn't open PDF files - is there some other text-editing program that can be used to edit PDF files?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks