Read pdf scan

[philfer]

Hello,

I have a bunch of pdf's that I want to convert to text. There are a few free pdf to word tools out there but they only work if the original document was a text file that was saved as pdf. What I have are letters that were scanned and thus the free tools convert it into a word image so I cant copy/paste/correct the text.

Is there a way in VBA to read the text from a scanned image?

Thanks
P

[Bob Phillips]

I use a program called Able2Extract, but it is not free.

[philfer]

Hi xld,

Thanks for that. I found Able2extract Pro and the free trial worked a treat but as you said it isnt free.

I often like to try and solve these problems in any case so if anyone has any ideas of how to start with this it would be appreciated

Thanks
Phil