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nowaypablo  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Microsoft Word or Pages?

Learned my way around Acrobat this summer at an internship. PDFs are dank.





user-inactivated  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Doesn't Acrobat have built in OCR? I bet that could really come in handy if you ever have to scan anything.

hyperflare  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It does, but you're better off using dedicated OCR software and then converting to PDF

nowaypablo  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep, it was a law firm so every paralegal's computer pretty much had OCR running in the background all day, while our client's targets were producing their documents to us. It's appallingly slow even with top-tier computers :(

tacocat  ·  3365 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Macs have built in PDF technology. I'm pretty sure you can even export a PDF from TextEdit