[OPLINTECH] Convert PDFs to Word format on public computers?

[Phil Shirley]

I got several replies and tried a couple of things. In case anyone's 
interested, here's what I've found out:

Word can do this starting with 2013 (which we have). I tried this with a 
PDF I had created from Word and it did the OCR just fine; I tried it 
with a PDF I had created from a scanner and it do any OCR, just brought 
the whole thing in as an image.

Also, our Simple Scan Station (bought from BayScan) has the feature to 
scan a document and save it as a Word document. I tried this with a 
couple of things that were by the information desk and it did the OCR 
just fine.

I didn't look too closely at how well the formatting was preserved.

Phil


On 10/26/2018 10:34 AM, Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH wrote:
> Do you offer any way for patrons to convert PDFs to Word format, either 
> with software on public computers or by recommending free web sites?
> 
> I'm suspicious of web sites that do this for free.
> 
> It looks like it might be cheap and easy to sign up for the Adobe Export 
> PDF service, which their free reader software uses, for $1.99 per month. 
> I don't know if it would work to have all 37 of our public internet 
> computers on the same account for this.
> 
> Phil
> 

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Phil Shirley
IT Manager
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary.org