[real-eyes] Re: converting pdf to other formats.

  • From: "Mitchell D. Lynn" <mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:17:39 -0600

Again, OmniPage, OpenBook &C will do image PDFs where the other won't. Just
ain't no other way round it. 
 

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On Behalf Of Steven Clark
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 7:35 PM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: converting pdf to other formats.

Yeah but pdf2txt is free and free sure beats the price of those two
programs.
Steve


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On 12/22/2011 7:20 PM, Glenn wrote:
> Open book or Kurzweil will convert it as well.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mitchell D. Lynn"<mlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:<real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:09 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: converting pdf to other formats.
>
>
> Image PDFs won't convert unless there is some OCR going on as well. There
is
> no text to convert if it is an image. I think OmniPage Pro will OCR and
> convert image PDFs, but I haven't tried it. Pretty much eliminated PDFs
from
> my life for reasons others have given.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of kitty hevener
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:49 AM
> To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [real-eyes] Re: converting pdf to other formats.
>
> Hi, Andrea
>
> I tried this service and was not really impressed.  I found that I got the
> same results from this service as I did when using the "save as text"
option
> in the file menu of adobe.  I was hoping that it would take a .pdf that
was
> an image and convert it to text.  No such luck smile!!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea Breier"<abreier@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:<real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 8:08 AM
> Subject: [real-eyes] converting pdf to other formats.
>
>
>> I ran on to this and thought some of you here would like to try it out.
>> To have PDF files converted to text files free of charge, send an
>> email to  convert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> It is most convenient to put this address into your address book so
>> that  it is readily  available in mail. On the subject line, specify
>> the format  you want your file in.  So in this case simply type Text.
> Attach your PDF
>> document into your Mail message. Send  your mail and your   converted
file
>
>> will be emailed to you pretty quickly ..
>>
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