If you have it, I believe the latest version of Word will use OCR on a
PDF image.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:40 AM Pikas, Christina K.
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> An edge case but I've been using the pdftools package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pdftools/index.html)  in R recently with the udpipe package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/udpipe/index.html) and it just... works!
>
> Christina
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> Charles asked the exact question I was tasked with figuring out this week.
>
> Thank you all for your suggestions- super helpful!
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:24 PM Hammer, Erich F <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Are you working with PDFs with OCR'd and/or indexed text?  If so, just
> > about any PDF reader will allow copying the text out (if the PDF isn't
> > protected).  SumatraPDF (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org) is my
> > choice for a functional reader with a much lower risk than "fully functional"
> > readers.
> >
> > If you need to OCR scanned documents you might try NAPS2 (
> > https://www.naps2.com/).
> >
> > If  you are looking to automate OCR using scripts, take a look at
> > Tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
> >
> >
> >
> > On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 16:15, Charles Meyer eloquently inscribed:
> >
> > > Hi my esteemed listmates,
> > >
> > > My bad if I missed this but I’m looking for a downloadable (not
> > > online) PDF editor?
> > >
> > > I want to be able to copy “language” out of a PDF I receive and
> > > paste it
> > in
> > > plain text in a word[processor document.
> > >
> > > Can you please recommend PDF editors you’ve actually used which
> > > worked well?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > Charles.
> >
> >
> >