Evo160K Posted January 22, 2015 Report Posted January 22, 2015 Northmount, Well that makes perfect sense, thank you. Is getting and running it through the OCR software a big deal or expensive? Quote
Northmount Posted January 22, 2015 Report Posted January 22, 2015 Northmount, Well that makes perfect sense, thank you. Is getting and running it through the OCR software a big deal or expensive? I'll see if it will work for me tonight. If I can find German settings in my software. I bought PDF Pro a while back. Around $100. Has worked ok for me so far. Tom Quote
Evo160K Posted January 22, 2015 Report Posted January 22, 2015 That would be great. I'm anxious to learn the results. Thank you. Quote
Northmount Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Well the converter didn't care about the language. I haven't proof read the files so there could be characters that didn't come through correctly. The PDF includes the graphics and text. You should be able to copy the text out now. In case you have problems, the text file is only text so will definitely be able to copy the text from it. You will be able to compare the text visually so you can match up with the illustrations. Attachments.pdf Attachments.txt Have fun! Tom Quote
Evo160K Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 (edited) Tom, That's awesome! Thank you. It copied easily and pasted into Google Translate no problem. That particular text was difficult for google to translate, however you do get the sense of what's being explained. I suspect a more technical translator would do better. So what does a person need for their computer to be able to do a conversion from .pdf to text? My Dell is running Windows 7 Thanks Tom. Edited January 23, 2015 by Evo160K Quote
Northmount Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Tom, That's awesome! Thank you. It copied easily and pasted into Google Translate no problem. That particular text was difficult for google to translate, however you do get the sense of what's being explained. I suspect a more technical translator would do better. So what does a person need for their computer to be able to do a conversion from .pdf to text? My Dell is running Windows 7 Thanks Tom. Do a Google search for "ocr abbyy finereader free download". I used it several years ago. It was being supplied with some scanners too. There are others too, search "ocr software". There is open source, etc. Most should run in Windows 7. Tom Quote
Evo160K Posted January 23, 2015 Report Posted January 23, 2015 Fantastic!! Thank you Tom, thank you very much. Now maybe I'll be able to read those old sewing machine manuals. That's exciting. Thanks again Tom. Quote
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