[Blindtlk] Fwd: PDF to TXT 3.0 released

[David Andrews]

it is free.

Dave

At 05:10 PM 5/25/2008, you wrote:
>How much does this cost?
>
>Jenn
>
>TO THE WORLD YOU ARE SOMEONE, BUT TO SOMEONE YOU ARE THE WORLD!
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>Andrews
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>Subject: [Blindtlk] Fwd: PDF to TXT 3.0 released
>
>
> >
> >Now available at
> >http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
> >
> >After a few years since version 2.1, I have now updated the program with
> >two substantive enhancements that broaden the range of PDFs from which
> >text can be obtained.  If a PDF is locked with a password that you know,
> >type it in the edit box that has been added to the main dialog.  If the
> >PDF is primarily an image format without textual characters, e.g., the
> >result of a scan, mark the new checkbox so that optical character
> >recognition (OCR) is performed rather than the usual text extraction
> >techniques.  Google Tesseract technology is used for this, which is
> >currently the best free OCR available.
> >
> >Note that OCR should be used as a last resort, since it takes much longer
> >and is more error prone.  Essentially, PDF to TXT now incorporates the
> >PDF2OCR package, which has been available at
> >http://EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip
> >The download size of the new installer is much larger, about 22 megabytes,
> >in exchange for the additional OCR capability.
> >
> >The program's batch conversion features work with the latest enhancements.
> >Thus, all the PDFs in a directory, or all those on a web page, may be
> >processed with a single command if they share the same password or image
> >format.
> >
> >Jamal
>
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