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Oh dear.. I am having (technical) trouble. Can anyone help? I might just be plodding through retyping my 55 pages after all!

I used the University's scanner and the files came out in Adobe acrobat, so I then resaved them into Microsoft Word. Unfortunately Microsoft Word only sees the individual pages as 'pictures' and I can't manipulate the text at all. Back in the pdf files, I can't use the 'text tool', either.

Anyone got any ideas... :? :?
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To be able to edit you probably need a full version of Adobe Acrobat, not just the Reader.
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Yes John I do have the full version (here at work....) but it still doesn't want to co-operate...
AArrgghh!
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kerrensimmonds wrote:Yes John I do have the full version (here at work....) but it still doesn't want to co-operate...
AArrgghh!
I have found some OCR software which I can try. If you email me a page
or two I'll have a go.

Will PM my email, as I suspect these messages are searchable by spambots.
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MKM wrote:
kerrensimmonds wrote:Yes John I do have the full version (here at work....) but it still doesn't want to co-operate...
AArrgghh!
I have found some OCR software which I can try. If you email me a page
or two I'll have a go.

Will PM my email, as I suspect these messages are searchable by spambots.
Are they similar to bigbots ?? :oops:
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TESTING, TESTING

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Kerren,
Please p.m me one page for me to test,
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Thanks. I can't do much at the moment I am afraid. I bought the files home on a USB flash drive.. but my laptop won't recognise it! Mary has already offered....and I had to say to her that it will probably be Tuesday now before I send her a page (when I get back to work.)
Will keep you posted
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