Need file conversion advice and/or help, plz.

[Growler]

Thanks, Vienna, I appreciate the advice. -

Been awhile since I trotted around with Omnipage, but I've used Word for many, many moons, so reformatting, while a tedious, onerous, odious chore, will be doable - I just have LOTS of other things to do rather than spend a few hours on that.

I'm ALSO discovering that this is a PDF taken from a scan. Meaning I need to OCR the "pages" out of the PDF before I can do ANYTHING else with them.

So yeah, I'll stand by my earlier statement - kill me now.

[vienna]

IIRC, "Omnipage" will do OCR from a scanned pdf page; just be prepared to do some proofreading; the OCR can be a little iffy, depending on the qaulity of the original scan. Also, if the book has been published, perhaps there is a better quality scan somewhere on the 'net. I once found a public domain book on the Project Guttenberg site (www.guttenberg.org) that was scanned into a formatted Word doc...

[MaddogK]

Have you tried acrobat professional ? We routinely create word docs and convert to PDF, and will convert back to *.doc format and many others. May be worth a look for ya.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by MaddogK

Have you tried acrobat professional ? We routinely create word docs and convert to PDF, and will convert back to *.doc format and many others. May be worth a look for ya.

Yeah, I was scoping that out as well, Maddog. I may have to bite yet another cash bullet and buy it; not sure it would have helped in this case, as the source of the file was a scan rather than a text-to-PDF save as operation.

As it turns out, I shelled out another 40 quid for a different program that is, at least so far, handling the OCR conversion and PDF to Word conversion, and doing a fair job of it.

If I didn't think I was going to use this program again, I'd be on a bell tower with a high powered Nerf gun.

And how's that for a 1000th post?

[the_tyrant]

happy 1000 posts day!