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Subject:RE: Conversion of PDF to word From:"Caruso, Margaret" <Margaret -dot- Caruso -at- nexteraenergy -dot- com> To:Vrushali Humnabadkar <vrushali -dot- sudhir -at- gmail -dot- com>, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Fri, 24 Feb 2017 15:49:04 +0000
I would invest in a Dragon voice to type converter and read the handwritten material in to the microphone. Then move the text into Word.
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Thanks for that lead ...yes will look into the options you mentioned....if nothing I will have to type it out myself.
Thank you everyone.
On 24 Feb 2017 5:40 a.m., "Tony Chung" <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Bernd: That aabbyy software is pretty amazing. I downloaded an iPhone
> app to translate text/OCR to multiple languages.
>
> Vrushali: What is your need for the handwritten assignment as a file?
> If you want to edit it, type it out. If you just want to digitize it
> in an indexable search format, both Evernote Premium and Microsoft
> OneNote do a pretty good job of indexing handwritten notes. Google
> only indexes text in images and handwritten scans if the PDFs or
> images are available on a public website. The free Google Docs doesn't do that for you.
>
> (Note: I am not to be held responsible if any of my words prove false
> because the features changed after time of writing.)
>
> -Tony
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Bernd Hutschenreuther
> <hutschi -at- yahoo -dot- com
> > wrote:
>
>> You can try abbyy finereader. It has also a test version.
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> schrieb am Do, 23.2.2017:
>>
>> Betreff: Re: Conversion of PDF to word
>> An: "Vrushali Humnabadkar" <vrushali -dot- sudhir -at- gmail -dot- com>,
>> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Datum: Donnerstag, 23. Februar, 2017 18:09 Uhr
>>
>> There is no
>> "best" PDF-to-Word converter. All the options will be bad, and
>> you'll just be choosing the one that annoys you the least.
>>
>> What did you use to author these pages? Does it not have an option
>> to save to RTF?
>>
>> Gene Kim-Eng
>>
>>
>> On 2/22/2017
>> 8:22 PM, Vrushali Humnabadkar wrote:
>> >
>> > My final goal is to create a
>> knowledgebase/help using Flare. I have written > these pages and
>> scanned it to PDF. Now want to make a word document to feed > into
>> Flare 7.2.
>> >
>>
>>
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