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democrite · 07-12-2020, 04:31 AM

If I need OCR, I'll generally use FineReader.

Acrobat seems to be in many cases, of what I've tried so far best overall at exporting commercial vector PDFs. Unfortunately there aren't many options. Sometimes HTML export is better than Word, easier to correct, though the HTML isn't great. It can style paragraphs as italic, with a span for normal, a bit of work to correct. Or it can create lists, such as currently, a line break that might start with "1." or some initial on the next line, same paragraph, it'll break and create a list; a lot of work to correct.

Maybe I will again try Nitro, Phantom and whatever other PDF reader I can find. Word might be an option but it's a large PDF I'd have to split. Afraid of multiple CSS style definitions with the same name but different definition per split that would cause other pains to fix.

07-12-2020, 04:31 AM	#19
democrite Evangelist Posts: 441 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	If I need OCR, I'll generally use FineReader. Acrobat seems to be in many cases, of what I've tried so far best overall at exporting commercial vector PDFs. Unfortunately there aren't many options. Sometimes HTML export is better than Word, easier to correct, though the HTML isn't great. It can style paragraphs as italic, with a span for normal, a bit of work to correct. Or it can create lists, such as currently, a line break that might start with "1." or some initial on the next line, same paragraph, it'll break and create a list; a lot of work to correct. Maybe I will again try Nitro, Phantom and whatever other PDF reader I can find. Word might be an option but it's a large PDF I'd have to split. Afraid of multiple CSS style definitions with the same name but different definition per split that would cause other pains to fix.