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This software tool will help convert PDF documents into editable document formats through OCR.
mini PDF to Document OCR Converter converts scanned image files, PDF files and text based PDF files to editable Document documents. The tool also includes scanning features that let you scan multiple pages into one or more Word documents. Scanned documents, even when not protected, are not easily machine readable. Regular PDF documents cannot be edited with usual word processing documents. You`ll need the Acrobat solutions to do that. If you do not have Adobe solutions handy or do not want to spend on the Acrobat solutions, then this is a tool that can be used conveniently. It is a batch processor and lets you set up a batch list easily. You can choose an output option and then get the conversion started.
You have a choice of languages when converting that includes German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese besides English. The conversion process does not interfere with the document layout. OCR accuracy is claimed to be 98%. But the font used in the document, the quality of the image (the level of noise in them) and the skew created during scanning are some factors that affect the recognition accuracy. Best bet then, is to actually try out the solution in your given work flow. One other issue to watch for is that, even at an accuracy of 98%, there are 2 words to be edited for every 100 words. For a large document then, this could be a significant burden that increases as the recognition accuracy drops.
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