-------- Original Message -------- From: Karen Berinsky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020, 19:46 UTC To: [email protected] Subject: PDF question
> How do I open a PDF that was scanned and is in my OpenOffice? Also, I have > no idea how to ask a question in for forum. Scanned images are just like photographs (bitmaps = just a series of dots that make up a picture). To turn scanned text into editable text you have to process the image through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. There are numerous commercial OCR packages available, but if you you only want to convert the occasional image you might consider free options such as: On-line: https://www.onlineocr.net/ Installed|: http://www.paperfile.net/ Regards Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
