On 11/19/2012 8:45 PM, Denis Beauregard wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:27:37 +0000, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> > wrote in soc.genealogy.computing: > >> On 20 Nov at 1:13, Denis Beauregard >> <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> wrote: >> >>> It is relatively easy to take a document and to print it to a PDF >>> file. For example, I can read a text file and print it with >>> LibreOffice. >>> >>> Now, I have a book scanned to a PDF file and I would like to extract >>> the images to enter them in an image processor so as to check each >>> entry in a list when I integrate the information into a database. >>> >>> I presume if I can print to a PDF file, then I can print to a JPG file >>> as well. >> >> Yes. But some programs do or allow this more easily than others. >> >> But scanning images and putting them into a PDF files is not the same as >> integrating the information into a database. You first have to extract >> the information from the images. OCR, Optical Character Readers, can do >> this but the accuracy is not 100% and if the book is old with variable >> print, the accuracy will be even less. > > My immediate need was for a series of records where some of them are > new, i.e. a list of burial records and for some of them, the church > record is lost. So in a first step, I check out the record from my > reference database, and then I add to my database the remaining > records. I don't want to scan them. > > I already did this when I was using Acrobat 5 which is not compatible > with the more record PDF format so I was looking for something to > do the same thing with Windows 7 and the new format. > > > Denis > PDFXchange Viewer allows you to export to an image file. You can export to all the common image file types. It is free, available to download at http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm