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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 -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Cassie Tanks Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 9:35 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF Editors APL external email warning: Verify sender [log in to unmask] before clicking links or attachments 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: > 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. > > >