Foxit needs Adobe's square doohickey for copying text

[nicholasdu]

One of the things I have discovered that Adobe has but Foxit does not
is what I call by its technical name: the 'square doohickey'. When the
text selection button is clicked, and I begin selecting text from
outside the text area, it puts a box around the text. Then, I paste
the text into document scanning software and perform OCR. Step three
is to paste the optically recognized text wherever I want it placed.
This may seem like a lot of steps. However, with .pdfs that have two
columns of text, the simple text selection wants to select text across
columns. The 'square doohickey' and OCR seem to be the best way to get
around this.

 

[lisztfr]

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One of the things I have discovered that Adobe has but Foxit does not
is what I call by its technical name: the 'square doohickey'. When the
text selection button is clicked, and I begin selecting text from
outside the text area, it puts a box around the text. Then, I paste
the text into document scanning software and perform OCR.

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Why do you perform an OCR on text ?

laurent h

 

[PDFrank]

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Why do you perform an OCR on text ?

It would be much better to paste it into a word processing program,
print it out, scan it, and THEN OCR it.

Then you'll know you got it right.

 

[Al Klein]

lisztfr wrote:

It would be much better to paste it into a word processing program,
print it out, scan it, and THEN OCR it.

Then you'll know you got it right.

OCR turns a picture into text. Since it's already text, why turn it
into a picture to turn it back into text? That just adds 2 steps that
might introduce errors.

To quote you, "It would be much better to paste it into a word
processing program" and use it like that. THEN you'll know that
neither the conversion to a picture nor OCRing - neither one of which
you did - it got it wrong.

 

[Paul_B]

One of the things I have discovered that Adobe has but Foxit does not
is what I call by its technical name: the 'square doohickey'. When the
text selection button is clicked, and I begin selecting text from
outside the text area, it puts a box around the text. Then, I paste
the text into document scanning software and perform OCR. Step three
is to paste the optically recognized text wherever I want it placed.
This may seem like a lot of steps. However, with .pdfs that have two
columns of text, the simple text selection wants to select text across
columns. The 'square doohickey' and OCR seem to be the best way to get
around this.

It already has paragraph select, but it's a bit buggy. AR works
better in this regard - so much so that I've reverted to it for
all reading. Note that AR 7 is much better than its predecessor.

I also repeat what someone else asked: why on earth would you OCR
text?

 

[Franklin]

It would be much better to paste it into a word processing
program, print it out, scan it, and THEN OCR it.

Then you'll know you got it right.

Funny!

 

[pickinjava]

For your viewing pleasure, look at this webpage,
http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-acrobat-square-doohickey.html,
to see what I mean by square doohickey, and how it works. In brief, to
copy one column in the two-column text, I find that I have to use the
text selection tool and move the cursor outside of the text area so
that the cursor is shaped like a cross. I can then select the text of
one column only. However, it selects the text in image format. When I
move the cursor in so that it selects text, then I am only able to
select text across columns.

O.K., all together now: "I understand what you mean! Why didn't you
explain this better in the beginning? A better method of selecting the
text is to [insert better method here]."

Cheers!

 

[nicholasdu]

For your viewing pleasure, look at this webpage,
http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-acrobat-square-doohickey....,
to see what I mean by square doohickey, and how it works. In brief, to
copy one column in the two-column text, I find that I have to use the
text selection tool and move the cursor outside of the text area so
that the cursor is shaped like a cross. I can then select the text of
one column only. However, it selects the text in image format. When I
move the cursor in so that it selects text, then I am only able to
select text across columns.

O.K., all together now: "I understand what you mean! Why didn't you
explain this better in the beginning? A better method of selecting the
text is to [insert better method here]."

Cheers!

[BTW -- Great to see you are using operamail, Paul. Opera mail has a
lot of potential, and I hope they continue developing it.]

 

[nicholasdu]

Let's try the webpage again:

http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-square-doohickey.html

 

[Paul_B]

For your viewing pleasure, look at this webpage,
http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-acrobat-square-doohickey....,
to see what I mean by square doohickey, and how it works. In brief, to

Your url is broken.

copy one column in the two-column text, I find that I have to use the
text selection tool and move the cursor outside of the text area so
that the cursor is shaped like a cross. I can then select the text of
one column only. However, it selects the text in image format. When I
move the cursor in so that it selects text, then I am only able to
select text across columns.

O.K., all together now: "I understand what you mean! Why didn't you
explain this better in the beginning? A better method of selecting the
text is to [insert better method here]."

Cheers!

Let me repeat what I already wrote, which you omitted from your
reply:


"It already has paragraph select, but it's a bit buggy. AR works
better in this regard - so much so that I've reverted to it for
all reading. Note that AR 7 is much better than its predecessor.

"I also repeat what someone else asked: why on earth would you
OCR text?"


You have to hold the cursor /immediately/ before the text to see
the column-select box. It's there, but it's output is buggy.

[BTW -- Great to see you are using operamail, Paul. Opera mail has a
lot of potential, and I hope they continue developing it.]

Operamail has been a disaster for years and I harbor little hope
for it.

 

[bMorphus]

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For your viewing pleasure, look at this webpage,
http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-acrobat-square-doohickey.html,

Where I read: The requested URL was not found on this server. Please
visit the Blogger homepage or the Blogger Knowledge Base for further
assistance.

Very informative indeed!

bMorphus

 

[nicholasdu]

The one below should work fine:

http://infomanih.blogspot.com/2006/04/adobe-square-doohickey.html