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Re: Computing Editorial (please read)
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 08:54:03 +0000, Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 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.
Or tell some program like Ghostscript to "print" all pages in seperate BMP
files. Much easier than making snapshots of the screen.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch