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Topic: convert image based(scanned) pdf to text searchabl

Posted By: vijaymathew
Subject: convert image based(scanned) pdf to text searchabl
Date Posted: 28 Apr 11 at 7:40AM

Hi all

can anyone help me how to convert image based(scanned) pdf to text searchable pdf.

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 28 Apr 11 at 1:33PM

Hi Mathew!

This isn't possible with QuickPDF.
You need a pdf-ocr-tool to do this job.
Try Google with "pdf" and "ocr" ...

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo