I’ve tried nuancepdf.com and www.pdftoword.com and neither returned the
Word document to me. Does anyone here have a reliable and if possible free
way to convert scanned PDFs to Word ?
Thanks for any replies.
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:20:39 +0000, Arthur wrote:
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Word document to me. Does anyone here have a reliable and if possible
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If they are searchable PDFs then just copy/paste. If not then they will
need to be OCR’d. I don’t know if CutePDF Pro will do that.
http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/pro.asp
On 1/6/2012 7:52 AM, Bob Crandell wrote:[color=blue]
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:20:39 +0000, Arthur wrote:
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Word document to me. Does anyone here have a reliable and if possible
free way to convert scanned PDFs to Word ?Thanks for any replies.[/color]
If they are searchable PDFs then just copy/paste. If not then they will
need to be OCR’d. I don’t know if CutePDF Pro will do that.
http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/pro.asp[/color]
I know of plenty of OCR PDF to TEXT freebies, but not to WORD. Most PDF
to WORD assume the item is “native” not a scan.
Did you try http://www.onlineocr.net/ (it has a 4mb limit though).
Also Google Docs has this built in.
“Arthur” a@b.com wrote in news:XqDNq.2928$1b.2512@kovat.provo.novell.com:
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Reliable yes, free, no. I setup the omnipage batch manager to watch a
folder, perform the action and dump the .doc into an out folder.
http://www.konicaminolta.co.nz/viewer.aspx?ID=181
You can probably just get Nuance Omnipage separately if that is all you
need.
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Ciao, Dave
Arthur;2165619 Wrote:[color=blue]
I’ve tried nuancepdf.com and ‘www.pdftoword.com’
(http://www.pdftoword.com) and neither returned the
Word document to me. Does anyone here have a reliable and if possible
free
way to convert scanned PDFs to Word ?Thanks for any replies.[/color]
Hi Arthur,
Many years ago I purchased a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. It came bundled
with ABBYY FineReader, an OCR program that will take a scanned document
and save it in several formats including: a searchable PDF, MS Word, MS
Excel, and MS PowerPoint. I have just recently upgraded to ABBYY
FineReader 11, a vastly improved version. It isn’t free but it is
reliable and able to convert complex documents. If you want to know
more, you can download the ‘User’s Guide’
(http://finereader.abbyy.com/guide/). You can also download a trial if
you like.
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“Arthur” wrote in message news:XqDNq.2928$1b.2512@kovat.provo.novell.com…
I’ve tried nuancepdf.com and www.pdftoword.com and neither returned the
Word document to me. Does anyone here have a reliable and if possible free
way to convert scanned PDFs to Word ?
Thanks for any replies.