Scanning Documents

[BlackS2]

Hi,

Not sure where I should put this one really....

A user needs to scan some documents to put into a file. The current information is in PDF format but they cannot use it in this format, they need to get it in word format. They have tried scanning but some of the graphs / numbers are quite difficult to replicate and I am guessing the scanner / word cant replicate them.

Is there a simple solution to this problem or another way of getting the information from the PDF to Word?

Cheers

 

[jlong515]

Acrobat Reader Professsional edition allows you to save .pdf's as .doc's and vice versa, but it is not free.

good luck,

JLong

 

[BionicJohn]

Just clarify what jlong515 has said:

The Adobe application you are looking for is Acrobat Professional. Current price: £395 + VAT.
Adobe Reader is just that, a Reader, with no editing or other facilities.

You should also note that it is possible that your PDF is password protected so that the text can not be extracted by either AA6 Pro or via the clipboard.

Scanning/OCR is a probably your best option - the less complex the layout of the document and the fewer pages, the easier and quicker it will be to create a Word *.DOC file.

Iechyd da! John.
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[pweegar]

A couple of thoughts (Esp. when the same scenerio may arise where i work. AND I am in a documnet imaging/corp records department where I work).

1) You COULD print the pdf document to hard copy. Then scan the document to a file and save the file to a word doc, if you have the capability.

2) If #1 is NOT possible, here are 2 sites worth looking at. The first is:

http://www.informatik.com.

They produce several program, of which one will convert pdf to tiff. They also have scanning software that looks pretty good for low volumne scanning departments.

The second site is:

http://www.eprintdriver.com.

They sell a pdf to word converter for $99. Sounds like what you may be needing. I have no experience with this product, so I can't give an opinion.

3) if neither of the above works, try doing a google search for pdf convert word or similiar keywords.

If you can print the pdf doc to hard copy, then scan, make sure you use a high level dpi (like 300 dpi) for good quality. Also if your scanning software allows, make sure you do both deskewing and despeckle (which u may have to play with a lot, esp if lines get wiped out.) We scan yellow pages to pdf format for our many offices for what ever they need pdf's of yellow pages for (and yes for us it's legal and we are THE largest advertizer in the yellow pages..lol).

Good luck!