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theignorant1
Howdy folks,
Great site you've got going here, really love the articles. I was wondering if someone could help with with a technical question here... I consider myself pretty savy, but no one knwos everything, and this is something I've never attempted before.
Basically, I've volunteered with a local organization to help scan some old newsletters. That's no problem, and I've got several done, saved as both seperate images and as pdfs. It's not a requirement, but I was told to OCR them if I could. The problem is, all that I understand about OCR is how to turn photographed text into actual 'plain' text - the kind you can copy and paste. It sounds to me like they want to make the actual PDFs searchable, for keywords and the like, which will also make it easier for them to create a master index to all of the old issues.
I'm using GIMP to crop the images, and I just turned them into a PDF with Open Office. I really don't want to buy any software for this, especially not anything expensive, so free solutions are definitely preferred. Does anyone have any idea how I might go about accomplishing this?
Thanks so much!
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