Sending Read's results on to Write and PDF by Zaweba
Read by Zaweba can hand its result straight to Write by Zaweba for editing or PDF by Zaweba for viewing, or to your default apps if you use others.
Getting the text out of a page is usually a step in a longer job. You want to edit the letter, file the searchable copy, or send it on. Read by Zaweba makes the next step short with two commands: Open in Write by Zaweba, and Open in PDF by Zaweba. Each hands the result to the other app so you can carry on without hunting for the file you just saved.
If you use other programs for those jobs, that works too. The commands fall back to the default .docx app or the default PDF viewer.
Open in Write by Zaweba
Write by Zaweba is the Zaweba word processor. When you want to change the words, rearrange the document or reuse it as the start of something new, this is the command to use. Read passes over a .docx with the paragraphs, line breaks, tables, page breaks and two-column sections it found, so you begin with the structure of the original rather than a block of plain text.
Typical jobs are retyping a standard letter someone wrote years ago, updating an old form, or turning a printed handout into a document you can keep editing.
Open in PDF by Zaweba
PDF by Zaweba is the Zaweba PDF app. When you've made a searchable PDF, this command opens it there so you can check that the pages look right and that searching and copying work. Read's searchable PDFs keep each cleaned-up page as a picture, with every word laid over it as invisible text, so Ctrl+F finds words in any language.
That suits records you want to keep as they look: signed letters, certificates, receipts and old paperwork you'd like to search later.
Choosing which way to go
Ask what you'll do with it. If the words are going to change, go to Write. If the page needs to stay as it is but be searchable, go to PDF. There's no harm in doing both from the same reading, and plenty of people keep a searchable PDF as the record and a .docx as the working copy.
Check in Read first
Whatever happens next, the best place to fix recognition mistakes is Read's side-by-side review, before you hand anything on. The cleaned-up picture and the text sit together. With Tesseract, words under 70 per cent confidence are shaded amber in both, and F8 jumps to the next. Edits you make there are used when copying and saving, and they go into a searchable PDF's text layer too.
It's quicker to fix a misread word with the original page right beside it than to spot it later in a document where the page isn't visible.
Other routes from Read
Not every job needs another app. Copy all the text to paste it somewhere, save plain text, or export tables as CSV for a spreadsheet. For a stack of pages, the Batch tab writes results for a whole folder in the formats ticked on the Output tab, and you can open the files afterwards.
Everything stays local
Read, Write and PDF by Zaweba all run on your own PC, so handing a document from one to another never sends it anywhere. That matters for the kinds of papers people tend to scan, such as letters from the bank, medical forms and contracts.
