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Adobe Acrobat Agony

  • 11-05-2011 10:08am
    #1
    MadgeBadge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭


    Hey,

    can anyone tell me how I can copy and paste from scanned text? I've scanned a newspaper article and I'd like to copy and paste it from acrobat into a word document.

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    You need to OCR it, I think this is built into Acrobat Reader but I don't have it installed to check.

    Note it probably wont be 100% accurate because of the font and kerning in the newspaper.


  • #3
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    If you scan to Jpeg you can insert the scan as an image, would this work?


  • #4
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Try the trial version of FineReader, very good for that kinda job

    Nick

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  • #5
    fionny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭fionny


    If you happen to have an android phone you can install the new google docs app which allows you take a photo of text and it will preform OCR on it.


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