Abbyy Finereader
I'm using the trial version- it seems to do a good job- with the limited capability they give you- but every conversion of a PDF appears when I scan it or converted to word is a "black" background and "white" letters- sofar I am unable to invert the colors.
Their help menu has been unhelpful unfortunately- ANY SUGGESTIONS?
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You can open your pdf in GIMP. You import it, invert, and then export it as a pdf. You should be able to do this in other photo/graphic programs.
Kind of a kludge, but I'm not sure what's happening with your program to go rogue on you.
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I have Finereader and have scanned pdf's of books and have converted them into Word documents, but I don't see the reverse white text on black background.
There is a checkbox in the Options dialog box under "Save" for DOCX/ODT/RTF tab in the "Text Settings" section called "keep text and background colors'. It is unchecked on mine.
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Bruce Roth said:
I have Finereader and have scanned pdf's of books and have converted them into Word documents, but I don't see the reverse white text on black background.
There is a checkbox in the Options dialog box under "Save" for DOCX/ODT/RTF tab in the "Text Settings" section called "keep text and background colors'. It is unchecked on mine.
Bruce- thanks for the response still having issues- attached is a PDF of one of the pages see if you can convert it to docx file
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Whyndall,
I Have FineReader 12 Pro at home and I'll try to convert it later tonight and see how it comes out. Could that be a trial "feature" perhaps?
With that said, I absolutely love the program. I use it to digitize thousands of pages of scanned books, and its OCR ability is heads and shoulders above Adobe Acrobat's. Great program.
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Greg Masone said:
Whyndall,
I Have FineReader 12 Pro at home and I'll try to convert it later tonight and see how it comes out. Could that be a trial "feature" perhaps?
With that said, I absolutely love the program. I use it to digitize thousands of pages of scanned books, and its OCR ability is heads and shoulders above Adobe Acrobat's. Great program.
This is what I am trying to determine for my use- I have a lot of Greek related material I would like to make PBB resources out of, for years I have scanned PDF, copied with formatting and pasted in Word, which means every Greek word had to be changed manually, which usually took me 10-20 hrs to accomplish.
I need a faster and reliable alternative.
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Whyndell Grizzard said:Bruce Roth said:
I have Finereader and have scanned pdf's of books and have converted them into Word documents, but I don't see the reverse white text on black background.
There is a checkbox in the Options dialog box under "Save" for DOCX/ODT/RTF tab in the "Text Settings" section called "keep text and background colors'. It is unchecked on mine.
Bruce- thanks for the response still having issues- attached is a PDF of one of the pages see if you can convert it to docx file
I ran the conversion and I have a document with normal white background and black text. Here is the file.
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Bruce Roth said:Whyndell Grizzard said:Bruce Roth said:
I have Finereader and have scanned pdf's of books and have converted them into Word documents, but I don't see the reverse white text on black background.
There is a checkbox in the Options dialog box under "Save" for DOCX/ODT/RTF tab in the "Text Settings" section called "keep text and background colors'. It is unchecked on mine.
Bruce- thanks for the response still having issues- attached is a PDF of one of the pages see if you can convert it to docx file
I ran the conversion and I have a document with normal white background and black text. Here is the file.
How did you get it to have a white background?
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Ok switched to "full color" - has white background- black text- gonna experiment a little.
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Bruce
How has this software worked for you, how do you use it?
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Whyndell Grizzard said:
Bruce
How has this software worked for you, how do you use it?
First off I see that my setting was set to "Full Color" I hadn't tried the black and white setting.
I have a project of converting some of my paper books to an electronic format. My eyesight is changing so that it is more difficult to read paper books with ease. Also I like the idea of having books in electronic format for searching and reading on devices.
I have been sending paper books to 1dollarscan to have them scan the books into a PDF file. Some may question the issue of copyright, but they destroy the books after they scan them. I do the basic pdf without the text conversion and use Finereader to convert to text underlying the PDF and I can send those to Kindle if I want a portable format to read on devices. I then convert to docx. I haven't done a whole lot of proofing the text. At this point I just want the converted documents and as I use the books and see that there are errors, go back and clean up the documents. Some books convert better than others.
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Sounds like the same process I use- except I scan all mine into PDF- then copy with formatting into Word then convert all the non-english text- very time consuming.
Looks Abbyy will eliminate a large portion of the manual conversion - hoping anyway.
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