How to convert OCR scanned PDF into *.rtf or *.doc?

[mattad]

I loaded a *.pdf file into PDF XChange Editor and clicked menu

Document--->OCR pages....

The pdf is successfully scanned.

But what next?

How can I save the just inspected PDF as *.doc or *.rtf file?

Is this possible at all?

How do I specify the output directory?

Matt

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the post - I'm afraid that this cannot currently be done with our software, but we hope to see this implemented within the next few builds of PDF-Tools 6.

Thanks,

[mattad]

Thank you for reply.

I am unsure if you are aware of the important difference between real OCR and just converting a pdf to *.RTF/*.DOC

OCR is much more sophiticated since recognizing and diffentiating between e.g. a "G" and a "6" from
a scanned page/article in an image file is much more demanding.

On the other side when you have already a pdf then all the text inside is precisely given.
You just need to convert it to *.doc format.

So I suggest to introduce as a first step a "stupid" pdf-to-doc only feature.

Personally I need this much more often than real OCR from scanned image.

Matt

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Like Will said, the conversion feature from PDF to DOC is not yet implemented in the new version V6 of PDF-Tools.

But, if you really are interested in a very basic conversion option, then you can still download PDF-Tools version 4 via the Tracker Software download page, and - at PDF Tools - clicking "Previous Builds":
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/version/pdf-tools

In that "old" version, there is an option to convert PDF to RTF (Rich Text Format).

RTF is a format that can be read by Microsoft Word and other text processing applications.

[Will - Tracker Supp]

Thanks Willy