Antoine Vignau wrote:
Dear All, I know I could have googled, read comments on the web, etc. but I am sure your advice will be worth reading on csa2. I don't have any OCR software now as I have a new job, Acrobat 8 is lost for good. Now, I would like to find a reliable and cheap OCR software for my Mac, based on OS X 10.6. I have recently scanned my Yamaha MIC-A-001 manuals and that results in a 173 MiB PDF... Ahem... Any help and/or pointers would be useful to me, thank you in advance,
I've found ReadIris Pro 12 to be quite capable and not too expensive. It is considerably faster than the Acrobat I used to use. It can convert an "image" .pdf file to an image-over-text file, which makes it fully searchable while retaining the original page images. It can also convert an "image" .pdf file to a straight text .pdf, which saves lots of space (if you are satisfied with the occasional OCR error (usually caused by interspersed graphics). -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."