Acrobat alternatives
Tips on text in scanned PDFs and converting to PDF and OCR’ing scanned images
I just want to quickly spotlight two very useful posts today on text in PDFs, and OCR’d scanned images.
The first is from Jonathan Bowman’s AEC & EPC Blog where he covers how to covert scanned images to PDF and then OCR them, using Adobe Acrobat:
The first step is to simply locate the scanned image and [...]
Firefox add-on ‘pdf download 2.0′ goes primetime
Rowan reported back in late June that (very) popular PDF Download 2.0 Firefox add-on had hit beta, well, now after almost a month, its ready for center stage.
One of the main benefits it offers is the generation of active hyperlinks within the PDF — which has been a common complaint amongst other free online HTML [...]
Nitro PDF releases Nitro PDF Professional 5.4
Nitro PDF Software have released version 5.4 of Nitro PDF Professional and it includes enhanced PDF forms, more accurate PDF to Word conversion and content editing, amongst other improvements. Read more:
Nitro PDF Professional available for immediate Free Download
An introduction to forms in Nitro Pro 5.4
Nitro PDF Professional 5.4 Release Enhances PDF Forms and Content Editing
Nitro [...]
Creating PDFs on Linux
It’s easy enough to create PDFs on a Windows or Mac machine, but what about Linux? A quick search of the web will show you that Linux doesn’t have half the number of PDF creator options that Windows and Macs have, not even close, in fact your options on Linux are quite limited (which is [...]
Speedlinking - 19 September 2007
If you are interested in the technical side of PDF [and related technologies] then check out James King’s new blog called Inside PDF. He is the PDF Architect and a Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe — so you are definitely getting the inside word.
PC Magazine has praised the PDF format and provided readers with reviews [...]
