[nfbcs] Optical Recognition of pdf image files

[Steve Jacobson]

Louis,

The first thing I would do if I were you is to see if whomever produced the 990 couldn't try another option.  
Presumably it was either someone in your affilliate or someone you paid, so this should be a possibility.  I've 
gotten PDF's from the person I pay to do my personal taxes which have come out fine.  I do not like using OCR on 
documents where every digit is important if I can avoid it.

I believe 990's are pretty much public documents, so if you can't get a different version, finding someone with 
Kurzweil 1000 to convert it would be a possibility.  Other off-the-shelf programs such as OmniPage and FineReader 
which are far cheaper also can convert PDF's.  I believe there is still a place you can email such files and get a 
text file back but I don't have that information.  

On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:19:17 -0500, Louis Maher via nfbcs wrote:

>Folks,

>I have been given a form 990 from our affiliate to review.  It is a pdf file
>containing images.  What do people recommend for Optical character
>recognition of this file.  I really do not want to spend $1,000 to solve
>this problem.  The file has 28 pages.

>Thanks.

>Regards
>Louis Maher
>Phone 713-444-7838
>E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net