Re: anyone have software to OCR a PDF?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 10, 10:22 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > For any but tiny programs, starting with debugging would be
> > the "short end of the stick".  
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> I like Applewin debugger :-P  glutton for punishment?
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> > Much better to start by doing
> > *serious* proofreading of the program to see if it all makes
> > sense.
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> yeah, thorough proofread definitely necessary.
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> > And, as I noted before, using a tool to construct a list of
> > all the "words" in the program and their frequencies is a
> > very powerful tool for finding typos--more effective with
> > programs than a spell checker with English!\
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> what tool do you suggest?  Any apple II word processors
> with easily definable dictionary?

It's a pretty easy program to write--even in Applesoft!

In Unix it's a "wordcount" program--it's been too long
for me to remember the command name...  ;-(

-michael

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