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Thread poster: Therese Palmkvist
Therese Palmkvist
Therese Palmkvist
Sweden
Local time: 09:29
English to Swedish
May 22, 2014

Does anyone know of a simple, good OCR software that allows you to highlight a section of a pdf and just get the text right away?
 
Emma Goldsmith
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Spain
Local time: 09:29
Member (2004)
Spanish to English
Abbyy May 22, 2014

I use Abbyy FineReader 12, which comes with a screenshot reader app.

You can select any text in any program, click "capture", and send the OCRd result to the clipboard or another file.
 
Peter Linton (X)
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Swedish to English
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OmniPage May 25, 2014

I use OmniPage, very similar to ABBYY. In a recent computer magazine test of OCR software, these two came out very well.
 


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