"Extract text" with OCR and work faster!

Many PDF drawings are generated from CAD and the text inside is often broken up lines.

Some other PDF drawings are generated from images or scanners.

Most of these drawings above cannot copy text. This causes a great deal of inconvenience to engineers.

Now, PDFBlueprint has solved this problem. Come to use PDFBlueprint to extract text.

1. First of all, make sure your computer has installed PDFBlueprint, if not yet installed, please download the installation package from the official website and install it.

Official website: https://pdf.fastcadreader.com/

2. Open a drawing containing text content in PDF format

3. Find the text to be extracted. Zoom the drawing to the appropriate size (press Ctrl and slide the scroll wheel to zoom, or use the window zoom function) so that the text to be extracted is clearly displayed.

4. Click on the "OCR" button first, then click on the "Extract Text" Function button below (or press the shortcut key T) to extract the text status.

5. Box-select the text to be extracted. The text recognition will start when the box-selection is completed. And the result of the extracted text will be displayed in a moment.

6. Check the extracted text against the text of the original drawing. Changes can be made directly in the Text Extraction Results pop-up window.

7. Click the “Copy All Text” button to paste the extracted text into other text programs.

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Tips:

a. PDFBlueprint supports the “Extract Text” function in a smaller view. However, in order to ensure the accuracy of the boundaries of the box-selected text, it is recommended that the text to be extracted be scaled to the appropriate size. It is recommended that you scale the text to be extracted to the appropriate size to improve the accuracy of the text extraction.

b. When you box-select the text, the text needs to be box-selected in its entirety. Incomplete text will not be accurately recognized.

c. When you box-select the text, do not box the drawing elements. Otherwise the drawing elements will interfere with the extracted text.

d. Only one column of text can be extracted at a time. Please extract multiple columns of text separately.

e. Too much text in the box may require a wait. Selecting a small area is faster.

f. The default shortcut key for “Extract Text” is T. You can also customize the shortcut key in the Keyboard Shortcuts Settings.

g. Currently only English and Simplified Chinese are supported. Other languages are not supported at this time.

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