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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis might be handy: How to convert images in a pdf into searchable text.
https://www.onlineocr.net/https://smallseotools.com/image-to-text-converter/
And there's a shitload more of websites. Just google "convert image to text".
https://www.newocr.com/
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
http://www.to-text.net/
https://easypdf.com/ocr-online
https://www.sodapdf.com/ocr-pdf/
http://www.free-online-ocr.com/
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This might be handy: How to convert images in a pdf into searchable text. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Apr 2019
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DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)1. Please post more!
This is great. Thanks!
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)2. Yet another childish roadblock by the Trumps
Cmon. Barr should be fucking ashamed of himself. And this pettiness is just stupid.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)3. The Adobe Reader has a search tool built-in.
Just click the magnifying glass and enter your query.
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)4. You must OCR it first...
Use the "Enhance Scans> Recognize Text" feature with the paid version of Acrobat.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)5. Ah, OK. Thanks.
I only have the free Reader.
elleng
(130,949 posts)6. Thanks