converting to word that can be edited

[Guest]

I have a couple of questions
1/ I have paper copies of documents that need updating and to do so from
sctatch would take an age.Is there any way of scanning them as an image then
converting into a word document. I have tried the following-
scanned to jpeg/ converted from jpeg to pdf using Image2pdf v1.8/converted
from pdf to word using able2extract Pro and PDF2WORD v 1.6 which doesn't work.
Any suggestions / advice would be great .

2/I have a few large pdf files (approx 40 pages each) that I have converted
to word successfully using able2extract pro but I am having problems with one
file it is 42 pages long and when I try to convert it only the first 2 pages
will convert. If I try to convert these pages seperately it states there is
no text on these pages even though I can see it. Any Ideas ??

 

[Graham Mayor]

PDF2Word will only work if the PDF file contains text. If it was created
from a jpg image it won't do anything. What you need is OCR software. Be
aware that OCR software will produce a file that will require editing to get
it to resemble the original document before you can even think about making
changes.

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[Guest]

Thanks for your reply it helped in as much as it confirmed what I thought.
I've solved the problem with the paper copy docs . finereader 8.0 pro scans
reads and converts to editable word , I'd recommend anyone to try it.

 

[Graham Mayor]

I would agree with your choice of Finereader. OCR doesn't currently get any
better than that.

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