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Judy Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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Judy Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:05:54 -0400
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George Bell pointed me to the obvious: a "pdf2ocr.txt" file in the 
"misc" subdirectory. I think computers were invented to make many of 
us feel really stupid! Now if I could just understand what the file 
is telling me!
Judy
At 10:37 AM 9/27/2007, Judy Wilkinson wrote:
>Just last week I wrote asking about converting a PDF document that 
>was apparently rendered as graphics.
>Several wrote suggesting using either Openbook Or Kurzweil 1000 
>which I tried to no avail.
>
>But co-incidentally, the following appeared in Dean Martineau's 
>Tidbits from last Thursday. I include it here. My only problem is I 
>can't find any documentation to explain how to place the arguments. 
>So I still haven't converted my document. Any help would be appreciated.
>Judy Wilkinson
>
>1) Jamal Mazrui has produced a free way to access those pesky pdf
>documents that are just scanned images of the text, that no screen
>reader can read. You can download it at
>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip


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