<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">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.<br><br>It's a page at a time, so some assembly is required.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Mick Alderson<br>IATSE 470<br>USITT Midwest Section</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 6:07 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft<br>
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> Yes, just the reverse of what I normally need.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> So, anyone know of a good free/cheap way to convert vector PDF files to raster?<br>
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