PDF editing

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Alec Brookes wrote:

> Dear Seelangers,
>
> I'm trying to scan a collection of Russian works into PDF format.
> These texts need to be edited to update old orthography into new and
> for spelling mistakes. I've tried editing PDF files (with OCR) in
> Infix to no avail. If anyone knows of a more appropriate programme or
> some other solution, it would be greatly appreciated if you passed it
> along.

PDF is not designed for editing, beyond a little minor touch-up.

If you want to edit the text, you need an editable format such as MS 
Word. When you get done, you can print ("distill") the results into PDFs 
as you please.

In order to get the original images into editable form, I recommend a 
good OCR program such as ABBYY FineReader (which BTW was written in 
Russia for Russian, so it handles Cyrillic very well).

-- 
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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