Then click anywhere on the PDF page and start typing. To add text to a PDF page: Tools > Comment And Markup Tools > Typewriter Tool > Default Style. However, the older PDF-XChange Viewer works fine for me and it is available free for academic use. There is a newer version of this tool called PDF-XChange Editor that has more features and is paid-only software. On Windows, PDF-XChange Viewer is a good tool for these tasks. Most forms are today available as PDF files for download and I prefer to fill them out neatly on the computer, print and sign them. There has always been a dearth of good quality inexpensive tools to edit and annotate PDF documents. Also, I don’t know a thing about Editor: I don’t know if it has the OCR button, though I would imagine it does.įingers crossed that the OCR is truly as accurate as it seems to be.📅 2013-Oct-31 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ editor, pdf, pdf-xchange viewer ⬩ 📚 Archive and extracts them onto a mind map for you), then you will want to use PDF XChange Viewer and not Editor. I mention this because if you are a Docear user (Docear is a program that looks at your XChange Viewer highlights, annotations, etc. You can still find the Viewer if you look carefully for it on one of the pages of the website. It is still free I believe, and it’s an upgrade to PDF XChange Viewer. The developers are replacing PDF XChange Viewer with PDF XChange Editor. Then it took a few minutes to do OCR, and then voila: Still working in the original PDF, I was then able to highlight text and right-click and save. It asked me whether I wanted a medium or high level of accuracy.
Well, I’ve only used it once, but the free program PDF XChange Viewer has an OCR button (I accidentally saw it today). Also, many OCR utilities will generate a separate, new PDF or text file that usually does a little distortion of the layout of the original. A while back someone was asking about how to deal with PDFs that don’t allow you to highlight text for copying, pasting etc.Īs was explained, the problem with such PDFs is that they are photocopy images (pictures) that do not have character recognition (i.e., OCR) of the text in the PDF-picture.Īnd so, a lot of times when you apply OCR apps to such PDFs to try to obtain OCR, these apps’ accuracy at interpreting pictures of text is somewhat good but you usually have to watch out for a significant number of errors.
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