Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3E3ED896.F96FF540@yahoo.com>,
CBFalconer  <cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>> 
> ... snip ...
>> 
>> 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.
 
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