![]() Granted, this problem is by no means essential to my livelihood: I realize that I could just markup the text using 'Notes' and 'Ovals or Rectangles' instead of Highlighting. But if the only software you can think of costs money, then please tell me anyway if it's not too expensive, I just might buy it someday. This means that I won't buy a Canoscan scanner just to do this.unless it's possible to download the software by itself for free, and have it perform OCR on the GIF or PDF files I give it. Here's a big limitation: I would like to spend no money to do this. (mkrishnan, I gather that this is the same thing as "the ability to copy / paste / search the text," as you mention.) I want Preview to somehow recognize the words and lines of text in this article, so that I can highlight them. ![]() Optimizes PDF file conversion and annotation capabilities. Intel Multi-threading technology, integrates Presto PageManager 9 and database architecture to enhance stability and overall performance. Specifically, my problem is that Preview will not let me highlight, underline, or otherwise "markup" any of the lines of text in the article. Presto PageManager 9 Features - Mac OS X Image Processing Module increases image preview efficiency by 20. I've found a few OCR programs, but what they do is take the words from the article, and output them into a text file - but that's not what I want. (I mention this, in case it's better to OCR on the original GIF pages.) Using Automator's "New PDF from Images" command, I turned them into a single, 12-page pdf file. I originally had a 12-page journal article, separated into 12 gif images. (I was considering making a new topic, but decided to post here instead.) When they list the OSes it runs on "posix" is a class of Unix-like OSes that includes Mac OX, BSD, Linux and so on These are Open Source and most OS independent, meaning that can be build on most any OS. That said if you are looking for high quality and "free" look here. Some words it could not figure out so it put in a JPG image of the word taked from the scan. Adobe Acrobat's OCR turned it into a crisp word processing document. I downloaded a scanned UM for an old out of production product and the scan has hard on the eyes and hard to read. It does OK even on un-readable poor quality low res scans of a user manual I downloaded. Funny on one hand are those who answer every request for help with "why can't you learn to use the SEARCH funtion?" and then there are those who say "Don't resurrect old threads." I think answering old threads helps those who do bother to use search.
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