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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

In <261044.YWNFABPB@news.telusplanet.net>, Simon Williams wrote:

> On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:55:28 GMT Glen <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> You can get that text out.  Adobe sells the full version of acrobat at
>> about $200.  There are also knock off programs that may work.  Some of
>> them may be free.
>> 
>> 
> Google can translate PDFs to HTML which is pretty easy to convert to plain
> text. Hope that's useful...

Not really as we were talking about manuals in PDF format which were
produced from scanned pages, i.e. images and not text. You'll need OCR
software to get plain text. AFAIK neither Acrobat nor Google can do that.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch