At work we have a document scanner that outputs files to PDF and e-mails it to us, but the PDFs are really just full-page images mashed together as a PDF because the scanner doesn’t have OCR capability. Here’s how to extract the text using Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007. It’s imperfect, but here’s what you [...]
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Quick and dirty OCR, included with Office 2003 and 2007
by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2012
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Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2012
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