<![CDATA[PDF OCR 4.2 comments:]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/ en Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:16:35 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter <![CDATA[By: Ella]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159346 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:16:35 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159346 <![CDATA[By: Beryl]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159345 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:31:56 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159345 <![CDATA[By: Brad Le'Lee]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159344 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:59:19 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159344 <![CDATA[By: Jeanne]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159343 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:12:57 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159343 <![CDATA[By: Alan63134]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159342 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:01:41 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159342 <![CDATA[By: Dave]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159341 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:25:27 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159341 <![CDATA[By: blind computer user]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159340 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:17:01 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159340 <![CDATA[By: hotmatrixx]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159338 Not For Me (I use something better) Many people seem to mistakenly think that this is for extracting text from a PDF. It is for converting a photo/scanned page into a searchable/copyable document. A better offer than the last few days, and potentially useful. Based on reviews here today, I will not be downloading. I use OmniPage Pro v17 (by Nuance Communications) It's paid-for software, it's expensive, it's not always intuitive to use if you want to tweak things, but it's brilliant.
-you can extract PDF's to almost any format (RTF, Word, and LOTS of others) -You can convert images to searchable PDF's -It will automatically tell the difference between images and text. -It will automatically rotate pages (it uses the text it's found to decide which way is "up") -you can scale, crop, correct, etc. -it will ask you about anything that it is unsure of -It can save in continuous or true-page (ie website vs book) -it can scan in & convert directly from any P+Play scanner (can be 'interesting' to set up though) -you can drop a whole bunch of things in a folder and batch convert, either each to a separate file, or contiguously
I use it mostly with an android app "cam-scanner". I use my phone's camera to grab the pages and then save all those images as a PDF. I copy that to the Computer, Omnipage it, and my 300MB of photos are cropped, tidied up, enhanced, then OCR'd into a word doc (around 2mb) or a PDF (around 6mb) - adding pictures increases this number, obviously. Just so you know, I archive everything that I read. I add a TOC using headers in MS Word, and I add a page number and link back to the TOC in a header that I add to every page (OK, Word adds it) making everything I read much easier to navigate for later reference. Enjoy.]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:23:34 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159338 <![CDATA[By: Marshall Savage]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159337 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:12:40 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159337 <![CDATA[By: bobbo]]> https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159336 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:58:34 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-ocr42/#comment-159336