Originally Posted By: joemikeb
Originally Posted By: JoBoy
I want to change an entire document from .tiff to text. ...

Since I already have the document in a PDF file, all I need is an OCR app to do the job so I can then copy and paste it into MSWord.

In other words you need selectable, searchable, and editable text, not a graphic image of the text. Correct?

No matter what image format, tiff, jpeg, PDF, etc, you are working from it will have to be OCRed to make it searchable, selectable, and editable.


To my mind this makes no sense.
A PDF file (essentially a photograph) is selectable, searchable and editable via Preview and Adobe Reader inter alia.
Why would it need to be OCRed when it's already manipulable?

I'm getting a surreal feeling of being in a Monty Python sketch or a Dilbert cartoon.