Translating a letter?
Sep 13, 2017, 1:38 pm
#16
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I would prefer having it on my computer, not my phone. I did a PDF scan and Adobe offers a program which will export it as a Word document, but the free trial and the two inexpensive programs are not available in Israel.
I am going to ask my daughter if she has the expensive program which converts documents.
I am going to ask my daughter if she has the expensive program which converts documents.
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692
Then you can use the Google Drive to translate the letter:
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/187189
Sep 13, 2017, 2:03 pm
#17
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Most scanners produce either a JPG or TIFF image and the PDFs made from them are just containers that hold a copy of the image. To a person they look like documents and they look fine when they print, but to a computer they're just a photograph without any textual meaning. So you're unable to copy & paste text from them. Well, you can, but you wind up pasting in a big picture of text, not actual text.
OCR is built into come scanner software and will read the photographs & convert them to actual text which can be copied and pasted.
Whether or not OP can copy & paste text from his PDF would depend on what his scanner's software and any other subsequent software his document was processed by.
OCR is built into come scanner software and will read the photographs & convert them to actual text which can be copied and pasted.
Whether or not OP can copy & paste text from his PDF would depend on what his scanner's software and any other subsequent software his document was processed by.
Sep 13, 2017, 10:32 pm
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Sep 15, 2017, 6:25 am
#19
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A great free scanner for your phone is called CamScanner. You can take a photo of your document and email it to yourself as a PDF file.
https://www.camscanner.com/
https://www.camscanner.com/