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by hans jensen
Fri Nov 04, 2016 2:33 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?
Replies: 6
Views: 4469

Re: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?

Thanks, Will Here's an example of a scanned page from our Canon printer, the PDF-XChange Editor OCR'ed page, the PDF with only the visible text layer, and the exported MS Word file. In the text layer PDF, you can select and edit the text just fine (the kerning etc. looks a little weird, but anyway ....
by hans jensen
Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:19 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?
Replies: 6
Views: 4469

Re: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?

Great! Just what I was looking for. However ... I notice in the Contents pane, that each text element (line, box, etc.) is handled separately, that's ok, but each element is split into single words. When this is converted to MS Word, it seems the spaces between words are implemented as a "wide&...
by hans jensen
Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:11 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?
Replies: 6
Views: 4469

Re: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?

Oh, I posted in the wrong forum, should have been the OCR forum. Sorry.
by hans jensen
Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:07 pm
Forum: OCR- For the PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer
Topic: Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?
Replies: 6
Views: 4469

Make text visible after OCR and export to Word?

When I OCR a scanned page in PDF-XChange and export the resulting PDF to MS Word, I get a file with the scanned page image and a text layer. The text is selectable, but invisible. I would like to make the text visible (and delete the image) so that I can edit the content, but I cannot find out how (...