Creating MS WORD files using Abby Fine Reader

[Michele]

We were using Abby Fine Reader 8.0 and currently upgraded to 9.0. We are
using MS Word 2003 with Windows XP. We have 25 manuals that we are currently
OCRing to create intelligent text, in this particular case our delivery
requires MS Word and a .pdf of each updated manual.

Has anyone else used Abby Fine to create OCR to word?

We've gone thru the manuals one time and noticed some pages didn't come out
as clean so we have extracted these pages only, redone them BUT now that we
are trying to replace the isolated pages, there are some uncharacteristic
occurances happening. For example, in the master file, I've removed the bad
pages and try to insert the file containing the newer pages, the formatting
become jumbled. In another instance, I've tried to copy a small table and
put it right where the old table was and I lose the format of the table.

Thanks for any assistance.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The OCR software that creates perfect results has not been invented.
Finereader is arguably the best of the bunch, but it will require a lot of
editing to get anything but a simple document to match the original exactly.

If it was me doing the job, I would OCR to plain text (ie no formatting) and
add the formatting later in Word.

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[Michele]

Thanks for your ideas. Depending on the size of the manual(s) and the time
allowed, your idea will be implemented.