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frikk · 04-14-2009, 09:27 PM

hey guys,
i havent been able to track this one down in the forum. I have a bunch of PDFs that are images (ie not searchable), but are really just plain text documents. I believe I would want to 'OCR' the documents to have them be searchable, right? Whats the best way to do this? I hear you can do a 'paper capture' in Acrobat, but this is not software that I have access to at the moment. Are there any good free tools out there?

Thanks!
Blaine

04-14-2009, 09:27 PM	#1
frikk Amateur PRS505'er Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Cincinnati Device: sony rs-505	PDF Image -> OCR -> text hey guys, i havent been able to track this one down in the forum. I have a bunch of PDFs that are images (ie not searchable), but are really just plain text documents. I believe I would want to 'OCR' the documents to have them be searchable, right? Whats the best way to do this? I hear you can do a 'paper capture' in Acrobat, but this is not software that I have access to at the moment. Are there any good free tools out there? Thanks! Blaine