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Removing white background from Acrobat Reader scans imported to Word?
Hello,
I have used a number of programs to turn scanned PDFs (i.e. scanned documents presented in PDF format) into Word documents. Common to all of the programs is that they sometimes use/generate a white background for certain parts of the text. Getting rid of this is not a simple question of selecting "No fill" (Format/Background/No fill or the analogous process for tables). It is possible to get rid of the background but it takes "forever" in complex tables. Anybody know any quick solutions? Many thanks, K -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...neral/200510/1 |
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Removing white background from Acrobat Reader scans imported to Word?
This is not a Word issue. PDF files are not intended to be easily converted
to text and the OCR type of software intended to convert graphics to text are all a bit hit and miss. One solution is to output from the application using plain text. You'll have to format it in Word, but plain text cannot carry backgrounds. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org John K via OfficeKB.com wrote: Hello, I have used a number of programs to turn scanned PDFs (i.e. scanned documents presented in PDF format) into Word documents. Common to all of the programs is that they sometimes use/generate a white background for certain parts of the text. Getting rid of this is not a simple question of selecting "No fill" (Format/Background/No fill or the analogous process for tables). It is possible to get rid of the background but it takes "forever" in complex tables. Anybody know any quick solutions? Many thanks, K |
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Removing white background from Acrobat Reader scans imported to Word?
Hi Graham,
Thanks for reply. I realise it's not a Word issue. There are many conversion programs that now do a good job of recreating PDFs. Probably like you, I prefer to simply extract the text and go from there. OCR based recreation of scans/images can be hit and miss but, in my case, it often beats the alternative of recreating everything from scratch. This is particularly true of complex tables with varying column widths etc. over twenty or so pages. In my case, recreated documents are then translated. There is double significance in being able to work from a digital copy and present a good facsimile of same to the client. Playing with the problem yesterday, I found a long-winded way around the problem and just wondered if anyone knew of a quicker answer or macro. Many thanks, K Graham Mayor wrote: This is not a Word issue. PDF files are not intended to be easily converted to text and the OCR type of software intended to convert graphics to text are all a bit hit and miss. One solution is to output from the application using plain text. You'll have to format it in Word, but plain text cannot carry backgrounds. Hello, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] Many thanks, K -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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