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I want to know

1) Best free softwares which would OCR a PDF file and embed the resulting text on the PDF file (for Windows)

2) Best reliable free PDF compressor with various options like low/medium/high compression level without much quality loss (for Windows)

Please help

Thanks in advance!!

Siddharth V
2014-03-20 15:49:16
I have voted up all the above responses, but I can't see any such no. of votes in the responses.
Giuseppe C
2014-03-20 09:23:11
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Hello, I'd try Adobe 11 itself; I seem very good and fast to do the job :) What about a comparative table? Bye.
SD
2014-03-20 07:38:26
PDF Xchange viewer will do OCR for text in PDFs and then you ill be able to search and copy the text.
Oron J
2014-03-11 11:53:20
1. Google Docs/Drive does this for you automatically (and is free!).
Hovsep A
2014-03-10 19:44:07
you can try FreeOCR 4.2?http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Miscellaneous/FreeOCR.shtml4 Ways To Reduce The Size Of A PDF Filehttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-reduce-size-pdf-file/
Giuseppe C
2014-03-20 12:04:13
Hello, I'd try Adobe 11 itself; I seem very good and fast to do the job :) What about a comparative table? Bye.