OCR with a pdf file is usually very simple. Not here. This is a legal-type document (PDF) with with line numbers on the left and vertical lines on both sides of the text I want to OCR. If OCR includes the line numbers I will have to spend hours removing them. The left side also include a law firm's name and the bottom has the title of the document, both of which I have blocked out. (Line numbering was fairly common on pre-printed legal stationery in the typewriter days; most courts have gotten beyond the way things were done in those days but obviously. It obviously makes OCR a challenge!) In much earlier versions of Acrobat I used a simple tool called Eraser from a British firm (long gone) that neatly erased anything from a pdf file, such as all the stuff I want to get rid of here, before running the OCR and saving the document as a Word file. That tool does not work with Acrobat 9 and the version I am now using, Acrobat X. Oh, and just retyping all the text is not an option for me.
There MUST be a way to do this! Any suggestions?
