(OT)How to recover text from .pdf files made from scanned pages?

From: SRIKANTH NS (nssrikanth_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:22:02 +0530

Hi All,

I have some technical reports from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
Admn, USA) in pdf format.

Without going thru the whole report, I wanted to find relevant sections I am
interested. "Find" in Acrobat reader (in RH 9) did not get me the results.
Then I realised that the pdf report is made from the scanned images of the
original printed report.

Is there any way to recover to text from the pdf file and paste it into any
simple editor to browse through relevant section? Going through entire
report (Very highly technical stuff, 160 pages ) will be a very tedious
affair.

Can anybody help?

Cheeka

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