[Blindmath] De-columnizing ieee articles

[John Gardner]

Hi John.  I don't understand why Infty Reader is not handling columns for
you.  I used it several years ago to convert a number of physics articles,
and those are all columnized.  It handled them perfectly.  I should hope
that the newest versions are at least that good.  Can you send me an example
article where it didn't work for you?

I can tell you one thing that Infty Reader does very well now that the older
versions did not, and that is PDF conversion.  Conversion is equivalent to
the best scanned images now, and it should get even better, as Infty Reader
will reinforce its OCR with words from the PDF.  If it is not just an image
that is.  They continue to develop better and better OCR by using commercial
OCR packages to supplement the Infty OCR - which is good for math but not so
good for regular text.


-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 12:08 PM
To: blindmath at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Blindmath] De-columnizing ieee articles

Hello,

I am using Infty Reader version 2.6.  It does not provide OCR for 2 columns
of text as is the standard format for IEEE articles.

In early 2007, someone on the list pointed me to a simple $50 software
utility that converted 2-column tif files to single column tif files.

Could someone recommend a similar program?

Does the latest version of Infty Reader now support decolumnizing?

What are the biggest improvements you have found with the latest version of
Infty Reader?

Thank you for your help.

John Miller

 

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