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Thread poster: Lou Sanz
Lou Sanz
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Sep 26, 2008

I would appreciate your advice on this matter:

I am to convert a pdf document into word format I can edit, so that I can count the words in the file.
Problem is the text in the pdf document is identified as a bit maps image, and programmes like Solid converter pdf2word won't convert the file as 'there is no text' in such file.
Can anyone tell me wether there is some other programme I can use?
Thanks a lot!
Lou
 
Uldis Liepkalns
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You have to use Finereader Sep 26, 2008

or like program, capable recognising image as a text. I can help you with the concrete file, if you'd email it to me- uldis_at_tulko.lv

Uldis
 
Elizabeth Medina
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FineReader - Can it Edit out Stamps and Pen Markings? Sep 26, 2008

Hi fellow ProZians,

I bought FineReader Version 9 a few months ago but I find the User's Manual absolutely arcane. I haven't had time to hunt them down and oblige them to help me figure out how to use it.

When I convert a PDF formatted legal document with stamps and notations in ink, it's just a disaster. I believe FineReader is supposed to let you edit out the marks and stamps that confuse the program and result in gobbledy-gook. But how? Beats me!!!

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Hi fellow ProZians,

I bought FineReader Version 9 a few months ago but I find the User's Manual absolutely arcane. I haven't had time to hunt them down and oblige them to help me figure out how to use it.

When I convert a PDF formatted legal document with stamps and notations in ink, it's just a disaster. I believe FineReader is supposed to let you edit out the marks and stamps that confuse the program and result in gobbledy-gook. But how? Beats me!!!

If anyone can point me in the right direction, even just a teensy-weensy bit for starters, it would be wonderful, I would be extremely grateful.

Best regards,
Elizabeth ▲ Collapse
 
Anna Villegas
Anna Villegas
Mexico
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To my Chilean and Spanish colleagues Sep 27, 2008

Please have a look to this:

You have your own OCR on your PC


This should help.
 
Rodolfo Raya
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Also in Office 2007 Sep 27, 2008

Tadzio Carvallo wrote:

Please have a look to this:

You have your own OCR on your PC


Office 2007 also has "Document Imaging" in the Tools folder of the Start menu.

Regards,
Rodolfo
 
Samuel Murray
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Change your counting method Sep 27, 2008

Lou Harvey wrote:
Problem is the text in the pdf document is identified as a bit maps image, and programmes like Solid converter pdf2word won't convert the file as 'there is no text' in such file. Can anyone tell me wether there is some other programme I can use?


You need an OCR program, but let me warn you that even the OCR'ed document may need checking and correcting. An OCR program may add more spaces or more "words" of single characters where it failed to recognise the text, and this will result in an incorrect word count. For PDF files like these, I suggest you do a spot check manual word count (eg print every 5th or 10th page, count the number of words in the longest lines, get an average per line, multiply by the number of lines, and add a little bit just in case).
 
Lou Sanz
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Problems with FineReader Sep 27, 2008

Thanks a lot for your help, you were all most helpful.
Finereader recognised the text and created a word document keeping the original layout, which I was more than glad to see. However, the words at the end of each line do not appear in the converted file. It seems like there's something wrong with the settings/margins which leaves such words out and that I cannot fix.
Thanks again for your help!
Lou
 


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