Converting FM to Word (was RE: Creating Popup menus in FrameMaker)

Syed Zaeem Hosain Syed.Hosain at aeris.net
Thu Apr 27 12:51:19 PDT 2006


Hi, Richard

Combs, Richard wrote:
> Syed Zaeem Hosain wrote: 
>  
>> Hmmm ... I would be surprised if he is using a true "image" 
>> OCR program. I suspect a mis-speak! :)
> 
> Perhaps you're right. But in fact, there's no _other_ kind of OCR
> program. OCR stands for "optical character recognition." It's the
> process of converting an _image_ or _representation_ of a character into
> the ASCII (or ANSI or UTF...) character that it appears to represent. 

Yes, sorry, that is what I meant too. Meaning he is *not* doing a true
OCR from an image - just converting from the PDF file with some software
(like I do).

At least, I hope that is the case! Going to Word from a scanned-in
image (printed from the PDF) would be quite an unusual way to do this!

> Pedants 'r Us :-)

:) :)

Z



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