PDF Help
December 1st, 2013
can anyone tell me a complete software that can read PDF, edit PDF file including PDF scanned images and also can convert PDF to any other format and all other format to PDF and also have a OCR option to scan paper documents in to editable
Please let me know the best sofware that does all the above things for me??
Foxit reader
Adobe Acrobat X Professional.
Whats the most important? PDF reading or the OCR capabilities?
For OCR, in my opinion, Omnipage is far superior to ABBYY Finereader. I think Adobe has this ability, but I have no experience with it. Omnipage could completely read a pdf (.doc, other standard formats) and convert to a text (excel, word, etc) file with nearly 100% accuracy. I rarely had troubles and when I did the error was always the same character, so I could easily run a macro to fix or better yet, program Omnipage to recognize that as an error and change it to whatever automatically.
Finereader was junk, way too many errors. I will never go back with them unless they significantly improve.
If you’re just reading and have a nice, fast system go with Adobe, you get plenty of options and you can integrate with other Adobe products, probably. If you want the pdf to open immediately, I would recommend something more “lighter” like what woot suggested. Go to
filehippo.com
and test out the different freeware pdf readers. Just be careful when installing the apps, as a lot of the times they will sneakily try to get you to install some worthless and possibly malware-ridden toolbar. Find the reader that works best for you, for free. If you like a particular app, come here and download a crack from a well-trusted and respected uploader. Or better yet just find a serial that will work.
TL;DR… Get Omnipage 17 or whatever version is the latest that isn’t malware.
I work a lot with PDF’s and and I use a combination of these apps to do all those things you’re interested in (in order of importance):
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.2 Extended (with all the updates through 9.4.6)
AutoBookmark Plugin for Adobe Acrobat
Infix PDF Editor Pro 4.25
OmniPage Pro 18.1
FoxIt PDF Editor 2.2.1
A-PDF Page Cut 2.8.0
Advanced PDF Password Recovery Pro 5.0.0
There’s no PDF app out there that can do it all by itself.
Adobe Acrobat Pro and Foxit Reader are my personal favourites… foxit is free
Bob Newhart, LedAstray and others members thanks a lot for the very usefull information, this will really help me out
LedAstray replied: I work a lot with PDF's and and I use a combination of these apps to do all those things you're interested in (in order of importance):
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.2 Extended (with all the updates through 9.4.6)
AutoBookmark Plugin for Adobe Acrobat
Infix PDF Editor Pro 4.25
OmniPage Pro 18.1
FoxIt PDF Editor 2.2.1
A-PDF Page Cut 2.8.0
Advanced PDF Password Recovery Pro 5.0.0
There's no PDF app out there that can do it all by itself.
Adobes Acrobat is a better OCR than OmniPage, in your opinion? Thanks, I’ll have to try it out.
matrixrajat replied: Bob Newhart, LedAstray and others members thanks a lot for the very usefull information, this will really help me out
No problem, that’s what we’re here for. If you try Omnipage, and have any problems, feel free to PM me and I’ll try to help you optimize the settings.
@ Bob Newhart
Adobe Acrobat is good for some sources you want to OCR and OmniPage is good with others. That’s why I have both handy so I’ll always get the best results possible.
@ matrixrajat
You’re welcome, cheers!
LedAstray replied: @ Bob Newhart
Adobe Acrobat is good for some sources you want to OCR and OmniPage is good with others. That's why I have both handy so I'll always get the best results possible.
@ matrixrajat
You're welcome, cheers!
I, almost exclusively, use the OCR with 3-5 numbers and one decimal point. No letters, although sometimes they throw one in there and when you’re doing thousands of pages of 3-400 lines of converted text each, it’s somewhat tedious to find that rogue letter, even with macro programs quickly analyzing and replacing any errors.
I’ll definitely try out Adobes product though, I’m hoping it is optimized to run more than 2 or 3 instances at a time without too much lag.
Speaking of, and sorry for the questions, but does Adobe utilize the GFX cards’ processing power by any chance? Because I’m pretty sure Omnipage 17 did not. Thanks for the help.
Foxit PhantomPDF Business v.5.0.3.0811
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/Secure_PDF_Security/
http://www.~Disallowed~/file/1692118871
http://www.~Disallowed~/file/107253871
@ Bob Newhart
OCR with 3-5 numbers and one decimal point. Interesting. I’m going to have to try that. As for the GFX card, I don’t know. I have a 3 year old Dell with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS card and it works great with Adobe Master Collection CS5.
Consider that if you try Adobe Acrobat, get v9.3.2 Pro Extended. The new Acrobat X is terrible.
Cheers!
Foxit Phantom
LedAstray replied: @ Bob Newhart
OCR with 3-5 numbers and one decimal point. Interesting. I'm going to have to try that. As for the GFX card, I don't know. I have a 3 year old Dell with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS card and it works great with Adobe Master Collection CS5.
Consider that if you try Adobe Acrobat, get v9.3.2 Pro Extended. The new Acrobat X is terrible.
Cheers!
Thanks again!
You’re welcome Bob. Say hello to Emily for me.
LedAstray replied: You're welcome Bob. Say hello to Emily for me.
Very well played, sir. I definitely will.