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Old 07-24-2015, 05:01 PM   #1
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OCR request - one time, 2 pages
Hi yall -- Can someone who has OCR software take my PDF file and turn it into something I can edit, please? It's only two pages long, but I'd rather not type it back in. I see some free OCR software out there, but it's all for a PC and I'm on a Mac. Plus the learning curve, etc (and I'm in a bit of a rush!)

It's an index, and I need to edit in more page numbers, cuz it only indexed half of the project (non work project - genealogy book).

Would this be something I could ask of someone?

Oh, duh. Nevermind. I see I can just CUT n PASTE out of it (previous file didnt' let me). Now I can put it into a text editor. Bye bye!

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Old 08-28-2015, 12:12 AM   #2
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Hi yall -- Can someone who has OCR software take my PDF file and turn it into something I can edit, please? It's only two pages long, but I'd rather not type it back in. I see some free OCR software out there, but it's all for a PC and I'm on a Mac. Plus the learning curve, etc (and I'm in a bit of a rush!)

It's an index, and I need to edit in more page numbers, cuz it only indexed half of the project (non work project - genealogy book).

Would this be something I could ask of someone?

Oh, duh. Nevermind. I see I can just CUT n PASTE out of it (previous file didnt' let me). Now I can put it into a text editor. Bye bye!

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If you get a couple minutes to check it out for the future, k2pdfopt will OCR PDFs for you on your Mac using the Tesseract OCR engine. It is open source.
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Old 09-01-2015, 03:26 AM   #3
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Easiest way to do quick OCR of a few pages is to use one of the many free web-based OCR services. A Google search will find them.
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Old 09-05-2015, 06:47 PM   #4
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Easiest way to do quick OCR of a few pages is to use one of the many free web-based OCR services. A Google search will find them.
I'd also add: for a one-time project, AbbyyFineReader has an online version that you can use for bupkus, I think, or uber-cheap. As badgoodDeb solved her own problem, our help wasn't needed, but for others that come along, Abbyy really works the best, if you can use it.

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