Omnipage Pro 14 and PDFs: a warning

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From: Owen Watson
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:48

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I'm posting this to warn others who are using Omnipage to produce PDFs 
in the image-over-text format, and prompt them, if they are affected, to 
moan to Scansoft, who acknowledge the problem but say I'm the first to 
report it.

What Omnipage does is occasionally put a space in words near the end of 
a line. I haven't tested whether it is because line lengths are short or 
what. It's not intrinsic in the Omnipage main engine because looking at 
the text in Omnipage's own text editor shows it not having these spaces; 
it's the conversion process that puts them in. I've got a good idea why 
it does this, but it's certainly annoying.

Don't tell me to use Acrobat's built-in Capture; it's a lot slower and 
apart from the error above, worse at OCR.

-- 
Please send email responses to: owenathome@rsnz.govt.nz , 
not to erewhon@rsnz.govt.nz

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