Thread: Guidance recreating a 28 page document
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Old 11-02-2014, 10:00 PM
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Office 2013 will open and convert PDF files created from documents, but those created from a scanner are simply graphics and to convert those you need OCR software. OCR software is never going to result in a perfect reproduction of the original.

Some OCR software is better than others. I have, for example, had good results using Finereader. But none is perfect and even the best will need educating.

This means that whatever you do, starting from this point, you are going to have to recreate the document virtually from scratch, using whatever you can recover from the graphical image.
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