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Have you tried adobe acrobat? <br />
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Getting things into tables from an image may be tough though. &nbsp;But worth a try.
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Have you tried adobe acrobat?

Getting things into tables from an image may be tough though.  But worth a try.

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Do Google search - <b>site:experts-exchange.com ocr ubuntu david favor</b> - as this question has come up recently several times.<br />
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These post contain a plethora of various OS tools, including discussion on how to use command line tools, if you have 100s-1000s+ docs to mechanically convert.
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Do Google search - site:experts-exchange.com ocr ubuntu david favor - as this question has come up recently several times.

These post contain a plethora of various OS tools, including discussion on how to use command line tools, if you have 100s-1000s+ docs to mechanically convert.

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hi,<br />
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Can EE recommend OCR software? We receive files in PDF, some are in editable PDF, some are in image scanned form. We are thinking if we could capture the data into Excel, that would save us a lot of time. thanks
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hi,

Can EE recommend OCR software? We receive files in PDF, some are in editable PDF, some are in image scanned form. We are thinking if we could capture the data into Excel, that would save us a lot of time. thanks

OCR software

Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.

Software

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used as a form of data entry from printed paper data records, including passport documents, invoices, bank statements, computerized receipts, business cards, mail, printouts of static-data, or any suitable documentation. It is a common method of digitizing printed texts so that it can be electronically edited, searched, stored more compactly, displayed on-line, and used in machine processes such as machine translation, text-to-speech, key data and text mining. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.