It’s another summer day at the office and here we are. We hope you’re enjoying the blog so far, curling around your screen with a cup of coffee and settling down to a light, easy read on our site (if anything technical can be called light).
Blogs are essentially light, interactive e-lounges, no? And you can’t get anymore interactive than responding to your readers, browsers, users—dare we say, groupies? So, product users, raise your coffee cups. We’ve got Investintech conversion solutions for you this time. And of course, we’re not giving them out all at once. What would be the fun in that? (enter semi-evil laugh here). And so out of the digital hat we choose. . .
“When I convert to Excel/Word, all I get is a blank document???
Okay. For this kind of problem, don’t worry. The situation will often occur for scanned PDF conversion attempts in Able2Extract Professional and Able2Doc Professional as well.
Scanned documents are snapshots and as such, are treated as images. So Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is needed to regenerate the data when you convert. This is why the subsystem is included with the Professional versions of our products.
So, for such documents, the user needs to ‘force’ the OCR engine in order for the software to recognize the image file and extract text from it.
To do this, select Edit > OCR Options > Perform Image-Based Conversion (OCR), and try the conversion again.
A related issue is also that the PDF file may be in landscape mode, and not portrait mode. Our software cannot convert vertical text or pages that lie sideways. In order to get a conversion output, the PDF file needs to be in Portrait mode so that text can be read from left to right. If it is in Landscape mode, you can rotate the pages using the directional arrows in the software viewer.
Hope this clarifies things a bit and gives everyone a heads up on that issue.
We’ll post up product tips regularly, so stay tuned and, no doubt, you’ll see one of your technical wonderings posted up.
Cheers!
(cue in sound of clinking coffee cups)
