What = extract text > college database PDF/dissertations? TTS tradeskillsllc[ at ]yahoo.com 2/17/2007 11:24:05 PM What software will extract text from PDF's like Adobe Reader. For example with the university of phoenix online library database subscriptions (many diffrent databases of texts serving as a library for the college ONLINE).... most of the documents which are avalible in FULL TEXT are Locked; meaning that the pages of the origional document were scanned as a picture, or atleast that the text cannot be simply copied and pasted from the document for copyright protection purpose. My delimma is that I need to copy the plain text from the documents for the text to be read by my text to speech reader software (the version I have uses ATT natural voices 16k versions which sounds almost human, and much much better than the built in TTS reader of adobe.)

Re: What = extract text > college database PDF/dissertations? TTS "EMRhelp.org" <EMRhelp.org[ at ]gmail.com> 2/18/2007 12:44:40 AM On Feb 17, 6:24 pm, tradeskills...[ at ]yahoo.com <tradeskillsllcyahoo...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > What software will extract text from PDF's like Adobe Reader to be read by my text to speech readersoftware Crossposter ? You need something to OCR the PDF. Adobe Acrobat would accomplish this. PaperPort with OmniPage would accomplish this (right click on a file and select "Copy Text"). There must be other cheaper solutions though. Probably ideally, you want to turn the image PDF to a searchable PDF (via OCR) and have your text 2 speech software read the .pdf file.

Re: What = extract text > college database PDF/dissertations? TTS GobinderConvert? 2/18/2007 7:05:13 PM I am not sure how *well* it would work, but you could print the document to OneNote, wait for it to be indexed, then go to the note and "copy text in this (or all) page of printout", paste it into a text file and run the speech to text. "EMRhelp.org" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Feb 17, 6:24 pm, tradeskills...[ at ]yahoo.com > <tradeskillsllcyahoo...[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > What software will extract text from PDF's like Adobe Reader to be read by my text to speech readersoftware > > Crossposter ? > > You need something to OCR the PDF. > > Adobe Acrobat would accomplish this. > PaperPort with OmniPage would accomplish this (right click on a file > and select "Copy Text"). > > There must be other cheaper solutions though. > Probably ideally, you want to turn the image PDF to a searchable PDF > (via OCR) and have your text 2 speech software read the .pdf file. > > >