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GreenJelly said:Thats a good solution... You could buy the
try downloading the Trial version of Adobe Acrobat Professional, and see if you can pull out the text that way. I dont know if you can. Acrobat works by a compressing images (and sometimes text) to vectors. This makes them very small, very clear, and Zoom works very good. The problem could be that the PDF contains no actual TEXT, and just images of TEXT.
GreenJelly said:However, when your done with the OCR... You will have another issue. And that is to process the text into an PDF. Usually this require programming. To convert Text to a format that can be inputed into excel. This takes some cleaning up logic, and can be difficult. I pull it off using a few different tools, each one accomplishing something...Then when its finally as good as it gets, then you got to go in and edit it yourself
GreenJelly said:PS I looked at the excel sheet. I could probably pull it off... but good luck, it is NOT going to be easy... OCR software is not going to be easy... You will have errors... and would have to double check every number... I recommend that you either contact the people who made the PDF, or you start typing..
GreenJelly said:My problem is with the size of the font, and the font itself (and it doesnt zoom well; it looks like it may have been a scan->pdf)...
GreenJelly said:Cool... I was thinking MetaData...
I betcha the text is in the header of that file, if you can get to it...
Mike