PDF OCR [UK Mac]

From: Rowland McDonnell on 15 Mar 2010 03:45

PDF OCR X - 1.5.2

Convert PDFs to text via OCR.

<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/75000192>

This version does one page at a time. You have to pay for multiple page
OCR.

I've just tried it on a PDF file created by pdfTeX.

The reliability of OCR was poor and it seemed very slow. Never mind the
layout being lost, the blasted thing got a lot of letters wrong. And in
the original PDF, they were all pixel-perfect straight from the PS Type
1 fount file.

I had better OCR from my fax modem's software back in the mid 1990s.
Back then, running System 7.1, I received faxes which were all turned
into text on-the-fly with errors only rarely, so I'm pretty unimpressed
with the MacOS X OCR offerings that I've tried.

Still, doing one page at a time is all I've seen the expensive fully
commercial Read Iris manage, and since there's an actual free OCR
package, for all that it's a loss-leading advertising vehicle...

btw, the only language that seemed to be available was English. Dunno
what the multi-lingual claims are about.

Rowland.

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From: Eddie on 17 Mar 2010 03:52

real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

> PDF OCR X - 1.5.2
>
> Convert PDFs to text via OCR.
>
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/75000192>
>
> This version does one page at a time. You have to pay for multiple page
> OCR.
>
[snip]
>
> Still, doing one page at a time is all I've seen the expensive fully
> commercial Read Iris manage, and since there's an actual free OCR
> package, for all that it's a loss-leading advertising vehicle...

Well you could try

PDFPen which includes OCR now.

http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/

or

Prizmo (works on camera images)

http://www.creaceed.com/prizmo/

Wait for them to appear on MacZot or Promo - Enjoy:-)

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