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(More customer reviews)I had a long printed document I wanted to put on my Kindle as a searchable PDF. It had a large number of Czech names and words. My scanner's OCR wasn't up to English very well, much less Czech. This program not only lets you take your document scanned into regular PDF and turn it into searchable (which the DX, at least will honor)--it also will let you use the OCR in multiple languages (a HUGE list)-- including Czech/English-- with ONE click. So now I can find words using the impenetrable Czech diacritic marks without having to type in those marks. It is simplicity to use. The interface involves: Click "Load PDF". Choose your languages. Hit "Convert." Even this Granny can figure it out.
It does have lots of other features for those techhier than I.
Then I thought: what about those books I can download as PDFs from Google Books? It did a 257 page book on Czech history in maybe 15 minutes, all set to go onto the Kindle in searchable form. It even lets me find the "Harvard" on the stamp from the book Google copied.
Most OCR programs cost upwards of $300. The one on my scanner takes forever to think about what to recognize on each page and then gets things madly wrong. This program solves the worries.
In combination with Microsoft One Note [which you already HAVE if you have Office 2007] this is a traveller's Nirvana. You can use One Note to make and organize yourself a complete guide from Wikipedia and other web sources--including pictures, up to date opening hours, history snippets, Notes to Self--whatever can be typed or copied and pasted. Then you can save it to PDF (One Note lets you do this), and use PDF Transformer to turn it into Kindle-Ready searchable form. Decent travel guides for Kindle are thin on the ground. This solves the problem. I'm ready to hit the streets of Europe in even obscure towns outside Fodor's ken with only my Kindle in tow.
PDF Transformer also apparently turns PDFs into Microsoft Office Documents, and vice versa, and people praise the old version for that (see ABBYY PDF Transformer 2.0 Pro) but I haven't tried that yet. For my immediate need-- getting documents onto a Kindle in usable form-- it is far and away the best thing I've found.
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