[nfbcs] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
Louis Maher
ljmaher at swbell.net
Tue Jul 22 22:47:35 UTC 2014
Thanks Steve.
Regards
Louis Maher
Phone 713-444-7838
E-mail ljmaher at swbell.net
-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
via nfbcs
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:18 PM
To: Louis Maher via nfbcs
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Optical Recognition of pdf image files
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
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