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alexpgpIt's my own fault, but when a client sent me a job this morning saying "Send file A by the end of today and the rest by Thursday morning," I allowed myself to think that "Thursday morning" was still some distance away.
At about 4 pm, as I was preparing to write a humongous check to the electrician, I absent-mindedly asked "What's today?" as I put pen to check, and when the answer came back "Wednesday, the fourth," I snapped my head up with a panicked look on my face.
Normally, I can handle 3,000 words in that kind of time frame, but 2,600 of them are sitting in a PDF file, and although I was able to successfully OCR them, I broke my principal rule of using FineReader: never let the program do the formatting for me. Unfortunately, even saving the result in an unformatted file didn't help much, so I wasted even more time.
So here I sit, at 10:10 pm, with most of the translation of the PDF done, but with a document that - to borrow a phrase - looks like a dog's breakfast.
Grrr.
Cheers...
At about 4 pm, as I was preparing to write a humongous check to the electrician, I absent-mindedly asked "What's today?" as I put pen to check, and when the answer came back "Wednesday, the fourth," I snapped my head up with a panicked look on my face.
Normally, I can handle 3,000 words in that kind of time frame, but 2,600 of them are sitting in a PDF file, and although I was able to successfully OCR them, I broke my principal rule of using FineReader: never let the program do the formatting for me. Unfortunately, even saving the result in an unformatted file didn't help much, so I wasted even more time.
So here I sit, at 10:10 pm, with most of the translation of the PDF done, but with a document that - to borrow a phrase - looks like a dog's breakfast.
Grrr.
Cheers...
