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Old 07-27-2006, 09:08 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by rmeister0
You're going to have a real tough time doing that. If you're talking about the PDF scans that were sold through RPGNOW or DriveThruRPG (1st and 2nd ed stuff), they are all image-based; each page is a single image of the page. The usual tools that extract text from the page won't work in this case. An OCR program can do the trick, but then you're going to be spending some time fixing the formatting, especially with all the tables and such.

If you're talking about 3rd ed stuff (none of which I've bought), the few works they've released so far are properly exported from their original dtp files, so the above wouldn't apply I think.
Coudn't you do a OCR with Acrobat and then convert to .doc > change size > create PDF?
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