This is where I find Open Book's Freedom Import Printer to be very helpful.
If you have Open Book installed on your computer, you can go into Adobe
Reader and tell it to print the scanned document.  When the print box comes
up, tab until you get to a list of printers, and one of them should be the
Freedom Import Printer.  Select this one and hit print.  Open Book should
then open up and begin performing OCR on the scanned PDF document.  This
seems to be a somewhat disjointed process though because sometimes Open Book
gets confused and doesn't actually open.  But it's worth a try, and I've
done this successfully quite a few times. Hope this helps.
Catherine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fowle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: pdf scanned document problems.


> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi simon,
> Your only choice with PDF documents that have been scanned is to
> use an OCR program either a "blind reading system" like OpenBook
> and Kursweil, or a much less expensive commercial OCR such as
> Omnipage.
>
> Of course the blind reading systems are self voicing, thus
> somewhat easier to access, but cost about a thousand bucks.
> Omnipage can be had for under a hundred bucks but is somewhat
> more complex to set up and use.
>
> Using OCR systems you can directly input the PDF documents into
> the OCR program and then bring it into word or anyother
> application of your choice.
>
> With PDF, there are no guarantees of actual readability.  You can
> usually get the text out of the document, but formatting can be
> still very complex and require dealing with changing numbers of
> collumns, sidebars, and all the mess sighted people seem to need
> to make it comfortable for them to publish.
>
> Tom Fowle
>
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