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Word doesn't recognise a font - if I download the font will Word then recognise and convert it?
I want to copy text from a Pdf, but some of the words are in a font that Word doesn't have, so when I paste the text into Word the letters that use that particular font come up as meaningless squares.
I know what the name of the font is and where to buy it, but before I do, I want to know if I will then be able to convert the text to a standard Word font that can be read on any computer. Can anyone help? |
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You having a font doesn't make it available to other users. If you buy a typeface and use it in your documents, it works for you but won't be available to others if they open the document in Word. You could print the document or save it to PDF to allow others to see the typeface correctly but not if you are sending them Word docs.
In theory, you can embed fonts into a Word or Powerpoint document but in my experience this doesn't work as advertised. You have to also ensure that the licencing provided with that font allows embedding - read the fine print on the font licence. Also, font embedding only works for particular font formats (TTF or OTF). See Embed fonts in Word or PowerPoint - Office Support for more information.
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Try having the PDF OCRd (Optical Character Recognition/Recognised).
Good paid for PDF editors will have this built into the program to use and some free editors/viewers/readers may have the same. The results will vary though from good to bad, to doesn’t work. It can also depend on the actual PDF and how it was created. There are several on-line PDF OCR converters to use also (found by search engine), which if I’m honest, the one I randomly chose, performed far better than the OCR feature in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC which I tried first. In my example below, I’ve used this PDF OCR converter - Free Online OCR - convert PDF to Word or Image to text - to recognise the text and convert to a .docx file. The PDF used/uploaded is a magazine and I previously extracted a page to use rather than uploading the full PDF as size/page number restrictions may/will apply to free OCR converters. I have also taken a screenshot of the page article in question and saved it as a JPG file as a comparison. This can also be uploaded and recognised and the result can have the text copied and pasted into a new Word page for easier reading/further copying in your preferred font. Click the image below to see first a PDF magazine text selection being copied and pasted into a Word document. Result - squares as characters. Then the single page PDF is uploaded on-line for OCR conversion. The result is downloaded and opened in Word. Result – reasonable conversion in default font with minimum/no editing needed. Then the article (text) is captured via screenshot and then the JPG image is uploaded for conversion to the same on-line converter. Result – reasonable conversion, minimum/no editing. Give it a try. |
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Thank you everyone for going to the trouble of replying and I apologise for the delay in getting back to you.
The pdf converts to word perfectly except for the parts that don't This prevents me from going to the OCR path. The parts that don't are Greek text - they come up as squares. The font given for those squares when selected is "SymbolOOEnc". I can retrieve the Greek text by individually converting each squared word to "Symbol", but i can't use find and replace to convert all "SymbolOOEnc" to "Symbol" because SymbolOOEnc isn't one of the options in the 'find' section (cutting and pasting it in doesn't work either). There are hundreds of such words scattered over 100s of pages so being able to use find and replace would be very helpful. Although if I have to, individually converting each word would be possible, it would be a great time saver to find a way around it, and in case I should run into the same problem again. Any suggestions? |
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Try changing the Windows system locale. Whether this will have any effect here will depend on how the Office OCR works internally. It won't have any effect on your English text, but alters how unicode text is perceived. You will have to restart the PC for it to take effect so ensure that your work is saved first.
Control Panel > Region > Change Location > Administrative Tab > Change System Locale - Greek Don't set the 'Beta' option as that doesn't work correctly ... yet.
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Thanks GMayor,
Unfortunately though, it didn't work |
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Actually it does. It just needed to download some things and I had downloads switched off.
Thanks for your help everyone, and GMayor in particular |
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