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Originally Posted by Hitch
I wanted to add an interesting experience here, that I just dealt with, yesterday.
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…but...on a flyer, I ran it through OCR, in Acrobat Pro. Then, I exported the new PDF, which now had a text layer, to Word.
And I'll be dammed, but the resulting file is NOT horrible. I mean, with a modicum of cleanup--not beyond the regular person--it could be entirely usable. I was pretty gobsmacked because the source PDF was not wonderful. It wasn't the worst I've ever seen (a scanned copy of a multiply-faxed document--that was the worst), but it wasn't crisp, either, and the pages were not wildly straight. But it worked, and the resulting Word file was not bad at all.
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Hitch knows this, but I'll say it here in case others missed it on other threads.
To convert a PDF to something editable the first tool I try is Word itself (2016 or later), it can't handle very large PDFs, but the results can be as good or better than the FineReader scanning etc route. I've wondered if MS and Adobe use a common code base for the PDF related improvements they've made to Acrobat and Word. There was speculation a few months ago that MS would acquire Adobe.
BR