I found the manual for Presto! PageManager 9 for Windows and it has 
sections on OCR.  What version do you have?

On 5/29/23 1:29 PM, charles meyer wrote:
> My esteemed listamtes,
>
> Thank you for your informative replies.
>
> I'd like to take a pdf Ive already scanned into a flash drive and nwo OCR
> that scanned  in PDF file?
>
> I was donated Presto! Page Manager version 7.1 and it scans documents on
> the Canon scanner bed great.
>
> But, I don't see how one imports a scanned PDF and  then converts that
> scanned PDF into OCR?
>
> There is an Insert an Image I pressed and that did nothing.
>
> The goal is  ot extract names, phone #s and email addresses in the business
> cards which were scanned in on a Ricoh all-in-one scanner to PDF and
> copy/paste that content into Word, Libre Writer?
>
> Can your OCR software do that?
>
> I recall Abby fine reader could but I lost that when my home desktop bit
> the dust.
>
> I was trying to find the manual to this Presto! Page Managerand that was a
> heady process.
>
> Maybe I should wait for the Criminal Minds or NCIS episode on scanners as
> they seem to accomplish every tech task by pressing the "any" key and in
> just seconds your creme brulee is ready!
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Best,
>
> Charles.
>
> Charlotte County Public Library
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