OCR (was: Converting FM to Word and previously: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

[Kristina McCook]

OmniPage 15 is about the best OCR program out there, and it is nearly
perfect., if you're going to OCR anything. 

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From: framers-bounces+convextech=alltel.net at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+convextech=alltel.net at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:37 PM
To: David Levy; Framers List; Free Framers List
Subject: Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

David Levy wrote: 
 
> I'm at the point where, if a client wants the work done in Word, I 
> build it in FM, PDF it, and then use an OCR program to convert it to 
> Word.  The results are better than FM's "Save as" feature.

<shudder /> OCR??? The PDF contains *real words*, not an *image* of the
words! Why on earth would you want to treat it as an image? 
 
> Close my eyes, send it on, and I've never heard back from a client. 

No proofing? You do realize that OCR isn't perfect, don't you? 
 
> Anyone have other suggestions for getting from FM to Word?

By far the best method is Mif2Go
(http://www.omsys.com/dcl/mif2go_main.htm). Acrobat's Save As RTF is OK,
too. For that matter FM's Save As should work better than OCR, assuming you
have an appropriate Word template that uses styles with the same names as
the FM formats. 

Heck, I'd rather save the whole thing as plain text, dump it into a Word
doc, and retag it than use OCR. 

<shudder /> 

Richard 


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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