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This software tool will help creating editable Open Office files from scanned pages.
OCR technology is able to convert scanned images of type fonts into actual ASCII coded characters, so that they can be handled easily by the word processing applications like the Open Office tools. mini TIF to OpenOffice OCR Converter converts scanned image files, scanned PDF files and text based PDF files to editable OpenOffice documents. Scanning features are built into the application so that multiple pages can be scanned into one or more documents. The converter will preserve the original layout of your PDF in an editable document. The GUI is intuitive, so that even users without much experience can get productive very quickly. The main area is given over to creating a batch list. This list determines not only the items to be processed but the order in which that is done.
You have the controls available to not only to add and delete the files but also to change the order of the files. You specify the document path and you are in business. One major issue you need to keep in mind is that, significant amount of editing may be needed after OCR has been done. Even when the conversion is, say 99% accurate, a page containing 2500 characters will have 25 characters in error and for any real life document with hundreds of pages, the numbers can be high and you should plan for editing time. Actual accuracy depends a lot on the fonts used, the contrast (hence the age of the document), color/tint of the page and so on.
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