Re: PDF in graphics format
Judy Wilkinson <[email protected]>
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George Bell pointed me to the obvious: a "pdf2ocr.txt" file in the
"misc" subdirectory. I think computers were invented to make many of
us feel really stupid! Now if I could just understand what the file
is telling me!
Judy
At 10:37 AM 9/27/2007, Judy Wilkinson wrote:
>Just last week I wrote asking about converting a PDF document that
>was apparently rendered as graphics.
>Several wrote suggesting using either Openbook Or Kurzweil 1000
>which I tried to no avail.
>
>But co-incidentally, the following appeared in Dean Martineau's
>Tidbits from last Thursday. I include it here. My only problem is I
>can't find any documentation to explain how to place the arguments.
>So I still haven't converted my document. Any help would be appreciated.
>Judy Wilkinson
>
>1) Jamal Mazrui has produced a free way to access those pesky pdf
>documents that are just scanned images of the text, that no screen
>reader can read. You can download it at
>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip
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