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    Convert scans of pages to digital text

    by SHAUN MCGILL Nov 28, 2017 2 minutes

    REQUIRES

    OCRTOOLS, OS X 10.6.6 or later

    YOU WILL LEARN

    How to take a document that’s been digitized as an image and turn it into editable text, and optionally translate its contents, too

    IT WILL TAKE

    15 minutes

    have a wealth of documents that are not easily available in digital form. Perhaps you have old newspaper cuttings related to your family, recipes you’ve collected from magazines over

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