[SML] vector to raster

[Mick Alderson]

My method of late has been to use Google Docs. Scan hardcopy and/or
screenshot a page to a JPG or PNG and upload the resulting image to Google
Drive. Then Right click|Open with|Google Docs and a new Doc file will open
containing the original image and the extracted text. It will need
formatting and editing (font colors are pretty creative and sometimes the
text is white-on-white) but the OCR process is actually pretty accurate. It
has even extracted hand-printed material, but cursive not so well.

It's a page at a time, so some assembly is required.

Mick Alderson
IATSE 470
USITT Midwest Section

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:07 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, just the reverse of what I normally need.
> >
> > I have some PDF instruction manuals that I need to OCR to make them
> searchable.  All the OCR software I've tried just stares at me with no
> result.  I contacted the company for the software we normally use (and have
> paid for), they checked and found the file is all vector images but needs
> to be raster.
> >
> > So, anyone know of a good free/cheap way to convert vector PDF files to
> raster?
> >
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