Using ABBYY FineReader to convert a bunch of OCR projects to PDF is time-consuming, but it must be done before importing my scans of “The Etude” Music Magazine into FlexReader. Most time the conversion works, but FineReader fails to do the job on a number of occasions, throwing new and inexplicable errors which reveal absolutely nothing about how I might get the task done. This commences a new category at Szapp: “SHIT DOESN’T WORK”. The world is run on crappy software, and on day I swear the error messages will drive society to the brink of chaos. It might be unfair to single out ABBYY FineReader’s inscrutable error spew as the opening salvo in this collection. FineReader is, by most standards, a quality product. I was inspired, however, by a particularly zesty error message which included a rare exclamation point and one error message on top of another. I’ve actually collected these error messages for a long time so I’ll have plenty to share going forward. BTW, the actual error message windows are quite small. I used Perfect Resize 8 to resize them without noticeable degradation. Perfect Resize, part of the Perfect Photo Suite 8.5 package I recently acquired, uses fractal technology to allow high quality printing from low quality sources such as camera phones or old webcams. I have not used it to resize images yet, only these screengrabs, but it seems to work pretty much as advertised.
Double runtime error!
PDFAdjuster.cpp, 656.
Rational overflow.
