PDF editing

[Alec Brookes]

Thanks to everyone who took the time to respond to my query. Much
appreciated! Best, Alec

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Michael Trittipo
<mike.trittipo at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Alec Brookes <alexander.brookes at yale.edu
> >wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> The order of operations is:
> (1) Scan, preserving the image in PDF or TIFF -- no OCR at this step.
> (2) Perform OCR, using Abbyy FineReader or Nuance PDF Converter or
> Omnipage.
>
> (3) Edit (proof, correct, format, etc.) in a real word processor.
>
> Steps 1 and 2 are best separated, because that allows using better OCR
> software in step 2.  On step 2, one should NOT try to preserve any kind of
> layout.  Get just the text strings.  Otherwise you may end up with text
> boxes, which are evil.  Infix is NOT capable of performing any OCR itself.
>
> Michael Trittipo
> Minneapolis, Minnesota
>
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