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Elfwreck · 03-11-2009, 04:28 PM

I don't think there are any shareware or free converters that will do the careful inclusion of both text & graphics. A few of them try, but tend to botch it. (And I'm not sure what those are; I remember trying to work with them and giving up and going back to FineReader.)

Adobe's Capture Reviewer was another versatile OCR program--but it was also expensive, and FR is better in many ways. (Not all ways. Capture Reviewer lets you set fonts and kerning; FineReader is atrocious at that.)

03-11-2009, 04:28 PM	#2
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,185 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	I don't think there are any shareware or free converters that will do the careful inclusion of both text & graphics. A few of them try, but tend to botch it. (And I'm not sure what those are; I remember trying to work with them and giving up and going back to FineReader.) Adobe's Capture Reviewer was another versatile OCR program--but it was also expensive, and FR is better in many ways. (Not all ways. Capture Reviewer lets you set fonts and kerning; FineReader is atrocious at that.)