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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