On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Doug Bale wrote: > GC is certainly amazingly versatile, given its price, but I don't > think > it does OCR, which is what's needed to extract editable text from any > image, PDF or not. I'm pretty sure the only text GC can actually edit > is EXIF and IPTC data, is it not? That seems to leave Acrobat or > OmniPage as pretty much the only ways to go. > > --- Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Norm's new scanner copies all OCR to a PDF format, as does mine. >> He would like to edit some of the data & change the page layout >> somewhat to conform to his layout for a Newsletter. Graphic Converter >> is a simple and inexpensive option, so I hope it will work for him. > Wouldn't copy and paste work here? If Norm is changing the layout there's a lot more work going on than just a few minor changes. Develop the new layout and copy and paste the text. Then edit if required. Martin --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage list subscription options at <//www.freelists.org/list/muglo>