Alas, CNET is a nest of vipers. Sorry, I should have mentioned
the best source: http://www.freeocr.net/.
NEVER TRUST CNET!
Best,
Allen
On 11/30/2013 8:25 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:09:09 -0500
"Maurice Howe" <[email protected]> wrote:
BEWARE !!!
The download of FreeOCR from CNET brought along a huge mess of excess
baggage. After 3 attempts at System Restore, running Malware Bytes, Spybot,
RegCure and Stinger got rid of (what I hope is all of) 243 infections.
There may be a "clean" version out there but this exercise scared me off.
I'll try Dave's Google Drive method. Thanks to all, but I thought this
warning was in order. Hope it saves others a lot of grief.
Cheers,
Maurice Howe
I'm retired. Go around me.
The comments on the cnet freeocr page indicate such infestation.
You could try Calibre, downloading only from
http://calibre-ebook.com/
which will convert a PDF into text. Anything I have ever downloaded from that
calibre site has been clean.
As a general rule I suggest only to download from an application's own site.
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