Scanned Text in JPEG to PDF

[BCD11]

Just downloaded doPDF and read instructions for converting JPEG to PDF BUT, I must have missed something.
I'm trying to take a scanned JPEG of a magazine Table of Contents and convert it to a searchable PDF so I can do a search for a particular word. When I open the converted file and search, I get the message nothing was found. What I'm trying is similar to an OCR task.
Any suggestions would be appreciated...even "No dummy, you can't do that!"
Thanks,

Bart

[Claudiu (Softland)]

Hi Bart,

I'm sorry but that can't be done with doPDF. What you'd need in this case would be a program that does OCR, which would basically get the scanned JPEG and extract the text out of it. You can read more about such programs here wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_optical_character_recognition_software and if you have Microsoft Office, then you already have a program to do that recognition.
doPDF creates searchable PDFs only if the original document it converts from is searchable.