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OCR Scanning
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I'd like to reduce the amount of paper around my home by using my scanner and an OCR program to store documents.
My question is that once a document is scanned into a OCR readable PDF is it then only able to read by that OCR program or will any OCR capable program be able to read it?
The reason for my question is future proofing in that I might in future use a different program or change operating systems.
Currently I'm using OS X 10.6. The OCR program I'm thinking of using is PDFScanner.
Thanks
SB
My question is that once a document is scanned into a OCR readable PDF is it then only able to read by that OCR program or will any OCR capable program be able to read it?
The reason for my question is future proofing in that I might in future use a different program or change operating systems.
Currently I'm using OS X 10.6. The OCR program I'm thinking of using is PDFScanner.
Thanks
SB
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If the program creates the scanned image into a PDF then the file will be able to be read by adobe reader which is available on most (all?) operating systems.
All the program you are using will do is convert the scanned image into a PDF file.
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