Hi Walt -
Regardless of how you proceed to handle getting new word docs, I’d like to make a suggestion about creating new .pdf from newly edited student workbooks. I would reate well-formed tags for the .pdf.
My ongoing dialogue about the file conversion“formatting” problems has yielded some great information. The most salient (other than the answer I used and delivered to you) being below. From many online responders I heard that OCR works best, because it is specifically designed for, scanned documents. Some were galled that I would OCR a file that wasn’t scanned, because that’s not what OCR was designed for.
But, if you have a printed version of all your student workbooks, and can perform some high-speed scanning at Staple’s, you could then OCR those scanned documents with Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and perhaps get exactly what you need with the least amount of formatting cleanup, referred to frequently in the posting below.
I’m curious to know who it works out. And, I have an invoice for you for $55 that I’ll email.
Linda Guthrie
978-764-5200