21 Dec
2009
21 Dec
'09
6:36 p.m.
On 12/21/09 5:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 21 Dec 2009 at 20:35, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
The problem is they all do lousy job of OCR on line printer output.
James Markevitch was working on a program designed for LP output, but
haven't heard much about it lately.
I have about 100,000 lines of code in over 3
dozen PDF files that were
scanned from the hard copy listings. Unfortunately, the original text
source files were lost, so the PDF files are a last resort. Other
than typing in the code by hand from the PDF file, are there any good
freeware programs to convert a PDF back to a text file?
I kind of like the idea of using Google to do my work:
http://www.labnol.org/software/convert-scanned-pdf-images-to-text-
with-google-ocr/5158/
But if you search OCR PDF, you'll get lots of choices, including some
free online services.