Hi [@Gene],
Yes, when I discovered and found the required 64-bit DLL for Adobe installations, I copied it to the installation directory, and now immediately install it along with the program all at once.
Heck, even ancient Acrobat 5 Pro beats Soft-Expansion, and I have CDs hanging around in my file cabinet, CDs with serial numbers that came with Dell and Gateway ( now Acer ) – and Zeos / Micron ( then turned over to Gateawy, now Acer ) – computers.
Also, search out
– Kofax and ScanSoft PaperPort,
– Elliteq ScanPort,
– Tesseract OCR open-source engine and derivatives,
– OmniPage Ultimate
– Abbyy FineReader
– Adobe Acrobat Pro DC ( and “DC” means ?!? )
– Readiris
– Rossum
… but OCR is a nightmare, where even 99% accuracy means there is something to manually compare to the original, manually find an error, and manually correct, for very every 100 characters, not very good at all, that averages out to 5 or more errors per typical page, imagine proofreading a 300-page PDF book OCR’d to epub … we might as well retype.
Even text copy-and-paste from Adobe OCR needs a boat-load of editing and reformatting to make sense of it.
Is voice-recognition any better, is it really so hard to wreck a nice beach, I mean recognize speech?
Dragon Naturally Speaking killed their much better competition with fake lawsuits, a now voice recognition is in the dirt.
No, computers have not gotten that much smarter, programmers are seeking out the low-hanging fruit, as we can see by the paucity of PDF tools that included OCR, let alone anyone substantiating any claims of 99.99+% OCR accuracy, and or side-by-side on-screen visual comparison so we can proofread and have a change of finding and recognizing errors, and correcting them, and the software learning from our corrections, and getting better with each OCR audit.
As if.
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