scanned pdf document to word conversion Thread poster: eva75
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I have a scanned pdf document (text as an image) that I need in Word. Having tried several pdf word converters, I've had no luck as each time I get the text as an image.
What can I do?
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Anne Lee 
United Kingdom
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Dutch to English
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| type it all out.... | Jul 27, 2006 |
I believe we've had that question before. A very frustrating aspect of our job, but you will have to start from scratch, I'm afraid. The ultimate image to document converter has not been invented yet. If you tried a few, including some good ones like Scansoft Converter, there is not much else you can try.
Anne
[Edited at 2006-07-27 13:00]
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Rahi Moosavi
Canada
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English to Persian (Farsi)
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OCR packages are the only possible solution, although if the scanning quality has not been good, the OCR would return gibberish.
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Anne Lee wrote:
The ultimate image to document converter has not been invented yet.
Anne
[Edited at 2006-07-27 13:00]
but for eons
Try with FineReader it runs like silk
REgards
...just a joke
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Anne Lee
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:16
Member (2003)
Dutch to English
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| You are right. ABBYY Finereader does the job. | Jul 27, 2006 |
Have put the demo version to the test on a minute font and am hugely impressed.
Consider this cynic converted.
I am buying ABBYY Finereader today.
Many thanks for the tip!
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eva75
English
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TOPIC STARTER | abbyy not that bad | Jul 27, 2006 |
Anne Lee wrote:
Have put the demo version to the test on a minute font and am hugely impressed.
Consider this cynic converted.
I am buying ABBYY Finereader today.
Many thanks for the tip!
I tested ABBYY and the results were quite impressive. of course, there was some formatting to be done, but at least it processed images, something I cannot say about other pdf-word converters (trial versions).
Thank you Anne for your tip!
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Anne Lee
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:16
Member (2003)
Dutch to English
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| Thanks to Fernando and Sarmb | Jul 27, 2006 |
Fernando and Sarmb must take the credit; they suggested it before me.
If only every other software programme was so easy to use and so reliable.
[Edited at 2006-07-27 20:52]
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mari19
Local time: 06:16
English to Spanish
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| a very good tip indeed! | Jul 27, 2006 |
I wish I had known this sometime ago!! I was working on my case study and my source text had 7 images, which made my life miserable while their translation lasted. All I could do was edit them in Photoshop because there was simply no way.
Thanks for the good tip!
Mari
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angibi
Italy
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English to Italian
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| Abby scan to office | Jan 6, 2007 |
HI!
I have just downloaded the trial version of Abby scan to office because I need to convert a PDF scanned file into a Word file. Well, when I browse to indicate which file I want to convert, I am shown only my fotograph folder, but the folder in which my file is looks empy, yet I know my PDF file has been scanned, ie it is not a real PDF file. What shoud I do?
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