D-fendr,
What are you using? I just tried with my hp officejet 6500. It converted as a lot of the Obama doc to text, but didn’t make layers, It just turned the characters, even text ones like the 8-8-61 into searchable characters. It didn’t do anything with Elizabeth Nordyke’s other than one big picture. It saved them off as pdfs. Maybe, I will load them later.
Here is the text that the OCR converted on Obiwon’s document;
CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 61106-11
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BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, II
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August
Day Yeai’
4 1961
6085 Kalanianaole Highway
OBAMA
9. __ 01 Father
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BARACK HUSSEIN
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25 enya, East Africa -r
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Student
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Universit.y ..,
Full Maldm Name 01 Mother
STANLEY DUNHAM
14. __ 01 Mother
Caucasian
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19k. IbIe of SlpMare
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20. o.te AeeepIed.,. L.eaI ft•• 21.
AUG -8 1961 ~
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APR 25
I love my 6500. I scanned one of my resume’s and it had a 100% character recognition on it. :-)
For the Obama file, just open the PDF in Illustrator to see the layers. For my file I'm using CanoScan 8400F. The key is to scan to, or convert to, PDF, then open in illustrator. Even a jpeg will create a couple of layers this way. Open a more complex scanned file and you'll see the layers, named the same way (and grouped as funky) as the Obama pdf.