thanks, I'll give that a go

I've tried 4-5 different programs and none of them has managed to do a really good job.

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on January 23rd 2013 at 20:31:55

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Can anyone recommend any quality, free text recognition (ocr) software? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 19:25:14
- Use zamzar.com (n/m) (General Chat) - Highway, Jan 23, 21:03:32
  - tar. That did a reasonable job once I cut and pasted it out of their unreadable file! (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 21:30:37
- Can't you use something like this, free 30 day trial... (General Chat) - Vivid Data Shark, Jan 23, 20:16:58
  - thanks, I'll give that a go (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 20:31:55
    - If you just want to copy and paste from a pdf can't you just open it in Adobe Reader... (n/m) (General Chat) - Vivid Data Shark, Jan 23, 20:41:41
      - it's a PDF scan of a physical document (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 20:43:54
        
        I feel your pain.... (n/m) (General Chat) - Vivid Data Shark, Jan 23, 20:48:08
        
        heh heh, yes, it is all rather tedious (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 20:58:09
- You should be able to cut and paste from the PDF.... if not (General Chat) - Pixelman, Jan 23, 20:03:20
  - cheers, that might work (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 20:06:50
- Jafski's yet man for this - shame he's no longer around (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Jan 23, 19:41:28
  - did he do a flounce? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 19:45:07
    - He's done a couple of rare postings. (n/m) (General Chat) - APB, Jan 23, 19:52:44
      - judging by what I've seen on here over the last couple of days (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 19:56:54
- Tesseract (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 23, 19:39:14
  - Wrapped in FreeOCR (n/m) (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jan 23, 19:41:16
    - isn't that what google uses? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 19:43:52
      - mmm tried it, and it's pretty much the same. Maybe there's better non-free software (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Jan 23, 20:05:05

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