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Re: Framemaker PDF Import

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From: Kenneth_Benson
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:08
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 > You could try running the PDF through a OCR

I wouldn't recommend it. Even a good OCR program is still going to make 
some mistakes. Saving directly to RTF will make no mistakes.

 > A good OCR retains at least
 > some of the formatting.

So will RTF, except that RTF will have it right, and OCR will guess at 
things like typeface.

 > (I have done this on PDFs that were
 > made from Scanned Pages.)

And there's the only good reason to use OCR on a PDF.

-- 
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com
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