Danny Richardson wrote:

You can, but in the case where a book is scanned the pages are handled
as graphics and not text. To do so all pages would have to be
processed using OCR software after scanning which is a major pain and
very time consuming.

Danny, K6MHE


I used the OCR software in Adobe Acrobat (version 8 came on my laptop).
Of all the free programs that came on my laptop, that is by far the most
useful one. Many are not worth the disk space they take up.

Acrobat 8 did a pretty good job of the OCR. It increased the file size
dramatically from about 8 to 17 MB, but it seems to have converted it to
text OK. A search on "maxwell" showed 20 references and each line of
text the search found looked fine, with no misspellings.

You can download a free 30 day trial of Acrobat 8 (I use the standard,
not pro version). Give it a try - I think you will be impressed.


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