mivox - 7:11 pm on May 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

Welcome to the world of OCR scanning... (and welcome to wmw, frc! :) )

Invest in a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scanning program if you plan to do a lot of this sort of work. Then you can convert scanned documents to text/word processing files, and worry about converting those files to PDF after you've proofread & reformatted them.

I'd LOVE to hear about it if anyone has a simpler solution to that one, because textfile-based pdfs are TONS smaller than scan-based ones, and it would save us a *lot* of room on our server if there were an efficient way of converting scans to text pdfs.