On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:45:36 -0500, Denis Beauregard <denis.b-at-francogene.com@fr.invalid> 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 I have Acrobat 6 and it won't run in win 7 either, but runs fine in an XP window using windows virtual PC. I assume Acrobat 5 will extract the images easily, as does Acrobat 6.