I have DT pro, but not Office. I don’t need the scanning option very much, since all journals etc are available online through university, but many of the older volumes are scanned without automatic character reecognition.
I seem to have read about DT Office that it can help in re-scanning old PDF’s and add character recognition. Is this correct and if so, does this work well?
And finally, what scripts are supported?
I am interested in the email archiving too, although I fear that DT pro won’t be a match for PowerMail’s search customizing abilities. Any experiences out there?
This is the primary reason I upgraded to Office, and it works fantastically. I find a lot of older PDFs have no text layer in them, and Office has done a nice job.
With Office, you can right click on any PDF in your database, and do “Convert → To Searchable PDF”
I don’t even own a scanner, and don’t use the extra email capabilities, but the OCR capabilities were completely worth the extra money.
It’s been very robust. A lot of the PDFs I’ve done originally came from scans, so quite often the text is tilted at a bad angle. And those have come out quite nicely, I haven’t noticed any problems.
I recommend just downloading the trial and giving it a go with some of your bad PDFs, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I certainly was.