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Adobe Acrobat Agony

MadgeBadge · 2011-05-11 10:08:17

Hey, can anyone tell me how I can copy and paste from scanned text? I've scanned a newspaper article and I'd like to copy and paste it from acrobat into a word document. Thanks in advance!

11-05-2011 11:08am

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MadgeBadge

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Hey,

can anyone tell me how I can copy and paste from scanned text? I've scanned a newspaper article and I'd like to copy and paste it from acrobat into a word document.

Thanks in advance!

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#2 11-05-2011 11:09am

Thomas_S_Hunterson

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You need to OCR it, I think this is built into Acrobat Reader but I don't have it installed to check.

Note it probably wont be 100% accurate because of the font and kerning in the newspaper.

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#3 11-05-2011 11:59am

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If you scan to Jpeg you can insert the scan as an image, would this work?

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#4 11-05-2011 1:01pm

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Try the trial version of FineReader, very good for that kinda job

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#5 11-05-2011 1:17pm

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If you happen to have an android phone you can install the new google docs app which allows you take a photo of text and it will preform OCR on it.

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