[vicsireland] Fw: PDF to TXT 3.0 released

  • From: "Gerry Ellis" <gerry.ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 21:30:26 +0100

Hi,

This application really works well and is easy to use.

Jamal has come up with a few beauties in his time!



Take care,

Gerry Ellis
t/a Feel The BenefIT

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 3:09 PM
Subject: PDF to TXT 3.0 released


Now available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe

After a few years since version 2.1, I have now updated the program with
two substantive enhancements that broaden the range of PDFs from which
text can be obtained.  If a PDF is locked with a password that you know,
type it in the edit box that has been added to the main dialog.  If the
PDF is primarily an image format without textual characters, e.g., the
result of a scan, mark the new checkbox so that optical character
recognition (OCR) is performed rather than the usual text extraction
techniques.  Google Tesseract technology is used for this, which is
currently the best free OCR available.

Note that OCR should be used as a last resort, since it takes much longer
and is more error prone.  Essentially, PDF to TXT now incorporates the
PDF2OCR package, which has been available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip
The download size of the new installer is much larger, about 22 megabytes,
in exchange for the additional OCR capability.

The program's batch conversion features work with the latest enhancements.
Thus, all the PDFs in a directory, or all those on a web page, may be
processed with a single command if they share the same password or image
format.

Jamal

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