Extracting image from pdf

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I have a pdf that has a section of text and a section of scanned pdf list of hand written inventory items that appears to be image format. I thought Acrobat Reader Pro would convert the list of inventory items using OCR but I cannot get it to do that. All I get is a list of the scanned items. I need to translate this to English from French. The pdf document translates in google translate but not the handwitten part. Google translate shows and error message saying the document format is wrong so that won't even process the pdf.

I can get the image section page by page. But it doesn't show in text format, only the image. Is there a way to use Adobe Reader Pro to separate the image section into a pdf text format?

try67 · Accepted Answer

First of all, there's no such thing as "Adobe Reader Pro". There's Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat Pro. I assume you use the latter, as the former doesn't have OCR capabilities at all.

Acrobat does, but it won't work on hand-written text. You can export the page as images by going to File - Export To - Image, and then select your desired format. This will create an image file for each page, which you can then feed to a stronger OCR engine, but most of those should be able to handle PDF files natively anyway.

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