[Hidden-tech] Problem with OCR from Adobe PDF

[George Forman]

Thanks team.  Saving to .txt then back to .doc did the trick.  Love  
our tech community!

George


On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Carey Baker wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> I was just listening to one of my morning podcasts and they were  
> talking
> about a desktop app that could work with OCR. Its called PDF PEN. I  
> have
> not used it myself but thought you might want to check it out. Here  
> is the
> link:  http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/
>
> Carey
>
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>> Good Morning Hidden Techies,
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>> My question deals with my attempts to scan a text document and then
>> convert the scan to editable text.  I have created a .doc file but  
>> the
>> text is stuck in blocks that make it impossible to move text from one
>> block to another or to have the text build as one continuous flow.  I
>> wonder if there is some command I can use to "flatten" the text
>> document in Microsoft word, something that eliminates these funny
>> constraints.  Here is what I have done.
>>
>> 1. Scan the page using my HP All in One printer, creating a PDF file
>> directly from the scan.
>> 2. Open the PDF in Acrobat Professional
>> 3. Use OCR feature in Acrobat to convert print to editable text
>> 4. Export as a .doc file.
>>
>> I work on a Mac using Snow Leopard as the operating system.
>>
>> Any ideas?  My gratitude in advance,  George
>>
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