Re: anyone have software to OCR a PDF?

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

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 10, 9:17 am, "WhollyMindless"
> <whollymindl...@a2central.com.remove-nae-this> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I'd probably just not have wasted the time on the OCR and
> > just retyped it as humans are much better at OCR than machines
>
>
> about 100 pages of assembly code isn't my cup of tea...  I have done
> it, but it's much more fun to invent 100 pages in your head and then
> type them in as you go.  Looking at a magazine/PDF/etc and typing
> in that much code will kill my interest in the project.
>
>
>
> > currently.  It's not like the program will work right the first few
> > times it gets through the compiler, it's still going to have to be debugged.
>
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>
> Here is the method I've used in the past:
>
> OCR, quick proof read, run it through the compiler.
>
> keep a list of compiler errors with line numbers
>
> go back to the editor in the assembler, start correcting
> errors.

And keep in mind that some of the errors will not be flagged
by the compiler, but *will* change the meaning of the program.

This is particularly a problem in languages which do not require
all names to be declared--like Applesoft.

-michael

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