You can use Adobe Acrobat (the full version): It comes with "Paper Capture", which is an OCR engine. If you don't have Acrobat. Other options are ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro (http://www.scansoft.com/o
You have several options when you convert your image-only PDF: You can convert everything to "real" text and graphics, which may not be your best solution, because you very likely will end up with a mix of recognized text and not recognized text, which will stay as scanned image. This means that your characters in your text will change from read characters to the scanned images, and this is visible even to the untrained eye. You can avoid this by selecting "image with hidden text", where the original scanned image will be used for display and printing purposes, but the recognized text will be stored behind the image (in the correct location). This means that you can index and search the document. When you find a term, the correct section of the document will be highlighted, but you still have the high quality scan that you started with when you view or print the document.
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by: lbertaccoPosted on 2004-08-11 at 02:23:48ID: 11770899
If you have office2003 you can print it to "Microsoft Office Image Writer" printer, then open it with "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" and click on Tools->send text to word