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HarryT · 12-07-2017, 04:34 AM

Yes, as Hitch says, a decent OCR program such as Abbyy, followed by hand clean-up of the resulting code, really is as good as it gets. PDF is a "terminal format": that is, you can convert to it easily enough, but you can't convert from it.

12-07-2017, 04:34 AM	#6
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Yes, as Hitch says, a decent OCR program such as Abbyy, followed by hand clean-up of the resulting code, really is as good as it gets. PDF is a "terminal format": that is, you can convert to it easily enough, but you can't convert from it.