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Re: Text Searching - when will or won't it work...

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From: graffiti
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:47
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I think you understand fine.

      can we "read" the PDF with the full Adobe program, OCR it, and resave?




Simple answer: Yes.

Better answer: There are far better products out there for OCR than Acrobat.

I've never used it but Abby FineReader gets talked up a lot around here.

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