In article <3E3ED896.F96FF540@yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer <cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
Paul Schlyter wrote:
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DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE!!! Instead use a scanner + OCR software. Yes,
the OCR software has its flaws, and you'll often have to proofread
what the OCR software produced. But in my own experience, OCR'ing
printed pages and reformatting + proofreading them afterwards is some
4-5 times faster than typing in all of it by hand. I've done a lot of
both! For instance I scanned all of the manuals for various versions
of the S-C Assembler and posted them on one of my websites (after
having gotten permission by the original author, Bob Sander-Cederlof
of course). Before I got a scanner with OCR software, I did a lot of
hand typing, therefore the scanner+OCR was a pretty big relief.
A lot of stuff is available scanned, but locked up in PDF files
etc. It would be useful to have a means of extracting that scan
and passing it on to OCR software.
You can always display it on your screen with Acrobat Reader, do a
screen capture, with e.g. Paint Shop Pro, into a graphics file, and
then OCR that file.