All,

ABBYY has been a favorite program of mine for transforming batches of TIFF
files into a PDF and extracting the text.

However, I have recently run into this known issue
<https://support.abbyy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013874239-Each-page-is-duplicated-with-the-thumbnail-image-while-converting-TIFF-to-PDF-in-FineReader>even
though each TIFF file is the same resolution.

I opened a support ticket with ABBYY and their proposed resolution is for
me to convert to another format (jpg) then to pdf. I do not like this for
two reasons 1)it is time and resource consuming to do two transformations
and 2) there is some image quality loss when doing this.


This leaves me with two questions:

1. Has anyone been able to find a better workaround for this issue?

2. Does anyone have recommendations for another GUI based OCR program? My
quick research is pointing to Tesseract, but since I work with volunteers
I'd prefer a GUI based solution.

Thanks!

*Erica Findley (she/her)*
*Systems & Metadata Librarian*
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