[Promotion-technology] Fwd: PDF to TXT 3.0 released

[David Andrews]

>
>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