INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor

[Curt]

- Infix is editing per page.

[rjbull]

@Curt:

The few PDFs I tried it on had a text box around every few letters (even words were usually comprised of multiple text boxes).  I don't have a burning need to edit pdfs, so I just dropped it. 

What I wonder now is if other (possible more expensive) PDF editors such as INfix handle things such that this issue isn't noticeable by the user? 

-mwb1100 (June 12, 2009, 09:19 AM)

Curt, do you mean that Infix allows you to ignore the boxes, and looks to the user like you're editing free text?

[Curt]

- yes.

Title by itself, headline by itself, and all the 'normal' text as a section by itself:

INfix: easy, capable, but expensive WordPad-like PDF editor


Infix does not understand that the text may continue on the next page.

[rjbull]

Infix does not understand that the text may continue on the next page.

-Curt (June 15, 2009, 10:44 AM)

Thanks...  I suppose it was too much to hope it would really work like a word processor...   

[Curt]

... too much to hope it would really work like a word processor...

-rjbull (June 16, 2009, 03:48 AM)

It doesn't even work like a pdf viewer!

[rjbull]

Hmm... now that I see the jpg "full-size" here, maybe it's not the best test candidate... The font looks big in the jpg. rjbull - do you have an image file that you could post for me to try to convert or is this what you were looking for?

-Darwin (June 10, 2009, 08:29 AM)

I sent Darwin the front page of a patent PDF file, and Nuance made a very good job of OCR'ing it into usable text.  Able2Extract couldn't touch it.  Maybe I should ask them to raise their game   

Darwin, many thanks for the test.  Expect some DC credits! 

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Aaauuuggghhh!       I spoke too soon!  I just tried Able2Extract again - and this time it worked!     Leaving aside explanations such as Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance, I think I must have pressed Ctrl-A in Able2Extract meaning the whole page, but it included the whole file, all 99 pages of it, and choked on converting something that size.  Just marking a section or a single page and converting that now works OK.  And it darned well should, too.  Here's part of the About screen:

Copyright     2000 - 2008 Investintech.com Inc.
Nuance      OCR     1994-2008 Nuance, Inc.

That is, it uses Nuance OCR technology!     On a quick look I still think Nuance's own conversion was a little better at least on the graphics, but Able2Extract has done a perfectly adequate job on the text.

Oh, well.  I suppose that means I don't have to buy yet another software licence.  I'm catching Darwin up all too rapidly as it is 
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