On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:02:28 -0400 "David Myers" <get2le...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Da'anzho Apache, (in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, You can look it up) > > > > It's prob'ly been ten year since I logged in, maybe longer, so I tried to > register, BUT . my email is already in use, so I tried to log in, BUT . the > two most common user names I use weren't recognized, BUT . you don't have a > link to email me my username upon some further identification. > > > > Let me ask what I want to know. I wrote a 425 page novel 30 years ago > before computers that almost got published, BUT . merger mania intervened, > and those editors were offed. Staples converted it to PDF. Adobe > supposedly converted that to Word, BUT . only the first 14 pages are > editable, and eve they had every kind of typographical reconfiguration like > bunching words together, some of which I could space apart, others I had to > paste and redo, as well as 50 megaspaces between words on every page that I > had to backarrow. > > The rest reverts to Picture Tools in purple above the task > bar with that insidious cross of theirs everywhere I move the cursor, like > the target fixture in a sub periscope screen, aiming to blow up my whole > document AND Word with it. > > > > I don't recall seeing Apache Word or Writing or Office as an option in the > Adobe export menu. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, SO I CAN EDIT MY OLD > NOVEL? > > > > Thanks. > > > > David Myers > > 631-724-5675 > > get2le...@optonline.net <mailto:get2le...@optonline.net> > > You need to pass it through an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert it back to text; such programs often came (still come) with scanners. The very best are commercial applications but there are some free-/share-ware that will take a PDF file and recognise its text. Accuracy is variable, but with a good OCR application about 98%; careful proofreading of the recognised text will be required. On several occasions I have successfully used an OCR program called Tesseract, driven by gImageReader as a frontend. Whether these are available for your operating system I cannot say, but some Internet searching on your part should esxtablish their availability. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
