Need poor quality PDF converted to text for FindAGrave, or retyped?

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I want to enter cemetery interments for the St. Peter's Episcopal Church Cemetery (Cheshire, CT) on findagrave.com. The only list I can find is a poor quality PDF and my software can't convert it correctly. Does anyone have a more powerful program, or the time to type the list up for me? It is a very old and historic cemetery but only a small portion of the graves have been entered, so many people would benefit from this project.

These are the links to two of the three sets of pages (I don't know where the third one is for section C.)
http://www.cheshirehistory.org/pdf_files/che_cem_stpeters_seca_125-143.pdf
http://www.cheshirehistory.org/pdf_files/che_cem_stpeters_secb_143-176.pdf

The list ultimately needs to entered into this Excel spreadsheet template http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=excel but if someone can get it into text for me, I can convert it.

Please contact me for more information, or to email me a document.

Thanks,

Molly Nightingale
mollynightingale at agapemail dot net

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You could try converting the file to images, fiddle with the brightness and contrast settings, and then try OCRing it again - but essentially, I think the file is of too poor quality to do much. One may find that the easier thing to do is to retype the file.

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Need poor quality PDF converted to text for FindAGrave, or retyped?

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