Topic by Ghost 2014-10-17 21:12:26

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hi,
I used fine reader to convert one of my inaccessible scanned pdf textbooks into .docx format
however the text has tens of errors per page
I don't want to keep trying to understand garbled text
I would rather focus on the content of the text itself
is there a way to improove accuracy with fine reader
or another way to make scanned pdfs accessible

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Reply by burak 2014-10-17 23:13:04

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There should be an option like save as in adobe reader file menu.

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Reply by Ghost 2014-10-18 09:06:07

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hi,
that option only offers to save the file im pdf which it already is

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Reply by cx2 2014-10-19 07:42:19

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I believe there used to be an option to save as text but this depends on the PDF settings. There were also at one point tools such as PDF2TXT I think it was called which would convert a PDF to text file regardless of security settings, I don't know if Adobe found a way to block this however.

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