Comments on: Converting scanned documents to editable text http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/ Sun, 23 May 2010 14:09:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Holly Leakey http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-21040 Holly Leakey Sun, 23 May 2010 14:09:15 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-21040 Well, Thankyou lots,I have found this extremely good! :-P Well, Thankyou lots,I have found this extremely good! :-P

]]> By: admin http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1621 admin Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:30:42 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-1621 Vidhi, The only free one to download on the list is SimpleOCR, available at www.simpleocr.com/ The other free ones you might want to check out, which I have never tried, include GOCR - http://jocr.sourceforge.net/, FreeOCR - http://softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm Good luck! Vidhi,
The only free one to download on the list is SimpleOCR, available at http://www.simpleocr.com/

The other free ones you might want to check out, which I have never tried, include GOCR – http://jocr.sourceforge.net/, FreeOCR – http://softi.co.uk/freeocr.htm

Good luck!

]]> By: vidhi http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 vidhi Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:19:26 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-1617 hiii Is this OCR prodgram free to download to convert scanned document to editable text document ?? what kinda OCR program should I actually download from google ? thanks ! hiii

Is this OCR prodgram free to download to convert scanned document to editable text document ?? what kinda OCR program should I actually download from google ?

thanks !

]]> By: admin http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-19 admin Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:59:27 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-19 Pradeep, Thanks for your comment. I am not really sure how to program an OCR engine and have never tried it myself. An article that might help or at least start you in the right direction: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/simple_ocr.aspx Pradeep,
Thanks for your comment. I am not really sure how to program an OCR engine and have never tried it myself. An article that might help or at least start you in the right direction:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/simple_ocr.aspx

]]> By: Pradeep Reddy http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Pradeep Reddy Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:36:53 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-18 Hi, I am new to this blog, can you please suggest me some algorithm or pseudo code kind of thing, so that i can wirite my own OCR engine. Hi, I am new to this blog, can you please suggest me some algorithm or pseudo code kind of thing, so that i can wirite my own OCR engine.

]]> By: admin http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-10 admin Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:44:24 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-10 Grace, What version of Adobe Pro are you using? My personal preference is to not use Adobe for trying to OCR documents, especially scanned files. However, if you want to use Adobe, we can try to figure out why it's not working for you. Depending on the version of Adobe Pro that you have you may need the Paper Capture plugin. If this is a one-time job and you don't care how it gets done, what you probably want to is to take your pdf file and try to use one of the tools I mentioned above to open and recognize it, or contact us and we can do it for you. Let me know what version you're using either way, and I'll walk you through the OCR process for now and for future reference. Grace,
What version of Adobe Pro are you using?

My personal preference is to not use Adobe for trying to OCR documents, especially scanned files. However, if you want to use Adobe, we can try to figure out why it’s not working for you. Depending on the version of Adobe Pro that you have you may need the Paper Capture plugin.

If this is a one-time job and you don’t care how it gets done, what you probably want to is to take your pdf file and try to use one of the tools I mentioned above to open and recognize it, or contact us and we can do it for you.

Let me know what version you’re using either way, and I’ll walk you through the OCR process for now and for future reference.

]]> By: grace http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-9 grace Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:18:34 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-9 I have the Adobe Pro version, which has the OCR operation. i had to convert a scanned pdf doc to Word, so of course the entire doc becomes an image. So I went thru the entire OCR operation. Went to Save As so i can save to Word. But i get error-'Save as Failed to process document. No file was created'. What am i doing wrong? I have the Adobe Pro version, which has the OCR operation. i had to convert a scanned pdf doc to Word, so of course the entire doc becomes an image. So I went thru the entire OCR operation. Went to Save As so i can save to Word. But i get error-’Save as Failed to process document. No file was created’. What am i doing wrong?

]]> By: admin http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-8 admin Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:26:16 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-8 Chris, Thanks for your question. What OCR program are you using to do the conversion? Can you walk me through the steps of what you're doing? The fact that you're getting this message may suggest that the file has not been converted to text by the OCR program. Just a hint, when you're doing OCR, and you select portions of your document, there is usually the option to designate tables as tables, images as images, and text as text, etc., so that the OCR program doesn't try to convert a picture to text, for example. Tell me what program you're using and we'll try and solve it from there. Chris,
Thanks for your question. What OCR program are you using to do the conversion? Can you walk me through the steps of what you’re doing? The fact that you’re getting this message may suggest that the file has not been converted to text by the OCR program.

Just a hint, when you’re doing OCR, and you select portions of your document, there is usually the option to designate tables as tables, images as images, and text as text, etc., so that the OCR program doesn’t try to convert a picture to text, for example.

Tell me what program you’re using and we’ll try and solve it from there.

]]> By: Chris http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Chris Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:08:52 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-7 Hello, I wonder if you might be able to help with this one. When I OCR a doc into Word 2003, the File Conversion window asks to Select Encoding to Make the Document Readable. I cannot find any selection that makes the doc readable. Any ideas? Cheers, Chris. Hello,
I wonder if you might be able to help with this one. When I OCR a doc into Word 2003, the File Conversion window asks to Select Encoding to Make the Document Readable. I cannot find any selection that makes the doc readable. Any ideas? Cheers, Chris.

]]> By: admin http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/comment-page-1/#comment-6 admin Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:01:05 +0000 http://blog.fileconversionservices.com/2007/09/17/converting-scanned-documents-to-editable-text/#comment-6 arnie, Thanks for your comment. What you are asking is actually not that difficult to do. If you have the complete Adobe Acrobat program installed, and the pdf file you have was created from Adobe, then it would simply a matter of opening the file and doing a "save as" operation, and then getting it into the format you want from the options offered. Bear in mind though that you can't use the free Adobe Reader for this. You need to actually have the full Adobe program installed. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat program and are not interested in buying it, then your second option is to get a converter program such as pdf2word. There are many of them out there, just search pdf to word on Google and you'll see many results. A lot of them are shareware, so you have a limited trial edition that you can use and then buy if you decide to keep it. I'm not sure what kind of limitations you face with these programs, but make sure you get it from a trusted source, and have your antivirus and trojan detectors running before you install freeware or shareware. Your third option, and then one that I use most of the time when I am on a computer other than the one I have Adobe Acrobat installed in, is to use OCR which I discussed above. I have used SimpleOCR for a long time and I trust the source, so I don't hesitate to install it on any computer that I am running. There is another option, but I just can't think of it right at this moment, but if it comes to me I will add it here. Good luck to you! arnie,
Thanks for your comment. What you are asking is actually not that difficult to do. If you have the complete Adobe Acrobat program installed, and the pdf file you have was created from Adobe, then it would simply a matter of opening the file and doing a “save as” operation, and then getting it into the format you want from the options offered. Bear in mind though that you can’t use the free Adobe Reader for this. You need to actually have the full Adobe program installed.

If you don’t have the Adobe Acrobat program and are not interested in buying it, then your second option is to get a converter program such as pdf2word. There are many of them out there, just search pdf to word on Google and you’ll see many results. A lot of them are shareware, so you have a limited trial edition that you can use and then buy if you decide to keep it. I’m not sure what kind of limitations you face with these programs, but make sure you get it from a trusted source, and have your antivirus and trojan detectors running before you install freeware or shareware.

Your third option, and then one that I use most of the time when I am on a computer other than the one I have Adobe Acrobat installed in, is to use OCR which I discussed above. I have used SimpleOCR for a long time and I trust the source, so I don’t hesitate to install it on any computer that I am running.

There is another option, but I just can’t think of it right at this moment, but if it comes to me I will add it here.

Good luck to you!

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