Dictation Almost Great: The Random Capital Letters Plague

The dictation program is getting close. I use it all the time, but there is one continuing problem: random capitalization. If this one problem were solved, it would be a really close to excellent. And it seems like it should be a relatively easy thing to fix. C'mon Apple!

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Exporting to word, random capital letters

Hello everyone!
Bit of background about the situation:
A company needs to edit a PDF file as it is outdated, they tried copying directly from the PDF to word but as there is a lot of layout and info dependent on pictures that failed epicly. They asked if I could look into a way to get it properly into Word so they could easily edit it there.
I used Acrobat XI to export it to Word, the layout and pictures all converted properly and the layout looked fine.
The problem I am now running into is that in about a quarter of the document lines of text have converted into a mix of capital and normal letters, seemingly V,C,H,E,D,B,K are the biggest, and possibly only, problem, which sadly are used quite a lot in those few pages. The weird thing is that for the other 3 quarters of the document the same letters do not pose a problem and did convert properly.
I could go the hard way around and change everything manually(Or use Search and Replace in Word) to get them correct but I figured I'd try here first to see if possibly there is an easy fix for this happening. I tried googling but didn't manage to find anything that fixed my situation or was similar to my situation.
Opening the PDF in PDF-Xchange Editor showed the same problems I am getting in Word, so I am now thinking the problem may be with the PDF file and not the conversion.
The font used is the same throughout the entire document, both the places with problems and no problems use "Frutiger" and get converted into "Trebuchet MS".
A quick test(Not gonna stop trying things myself) shows that changing text from "Frutiger" to "Calibri" makes the problem areas work fine after conversion. Is there possibly an easy way to change all text in the file at once as selecting every bit of text is a bit of a pain.(To google!)
The document contains info I may not share and thus I can't put it online for others to see and apply their hand at it directly.
If anyone can offer any help with this it is much appreciated!

Thanks for delivering the bad news, I found the most likely culprit while doing some last tests before manually changing everything.
I changed everything to Calibri and that fixed most of the document, a few layouts were affected and 1 page was still broken(it had a lot of empty lines to fill in names etc.) but that is not a problem.
The culprit, most likely, was the font "Frutiger" which when bolded apparently converts certain letters into capitals. Not 100% certain, but that seemed to be the case. I do not own said font myself so can't test it further, but changing the font fixed it well enough.

TS1314 Dear all, greetings, I did not mean to offend anyone by typing all my texts in capital letters, I am just used to it and at my age (63) it is better and easier for my eyes to type all the texts in my messages in capital letters.I do apologize about

Dear all, greetings, I did not mean to offend anyone by typing all my texts in capital letters, I am just used to it and at my age (63) it is better and easier for my eyes to type all the texts in my messages in capital letters.I do apologize about it all. I can assure you that I do respect all of you more that you maight me thinking of. i have the same difficulties in typing in small letters like yours in reading texts in CAPITAL letters.......tant pis, c' est la vie
For web and computing experts I would like to remind them that all the peoples nowadays have the same needs (or hobbies if you wish) regarding the electronic devices, web, compouters, softwares and that sort of thing.
If I WERE not to have technical support because of my prefiously used capital letters in me text messages, I have to confess that next time I will be more carefull about the devices producers........ I live and always learn (SOCRATES, girasko, aei didaskomenos)
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1. I noticed on the you tube videos about the new ipad that the main icons are more than mine (i.e. the icon of facebook and a number or others are missing)
2. I would like to ask you to do me a favour, thanks for your patiene. Still I have not understood how (in which way, the pictures, transfered from my system or new taken by the ipad camera are uploaded directly to the FaceBook. I suppose that I will not have the same difficulties regarding the videos to both Facebook AND YoutTube. Thanks a lot for your patience with me, from now on I will be more carefull about posting messages to you referring to technical support
Constantinos
Athens, Greece

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To upload photos to Facebook you can use the above app - you can't, for example, use Safari on the iPad to upload content to sites.
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Sorry that you are having a problem switching from upper and lower case letter for wireless connection.
When the keyboard appears on the printer display, there should be a ARROW pointing up or a TRIANGLE. Press that, and the entire keyboard changes into CAPS.
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Changing the small letters to capital letters

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Experts,
I retrieved the data from ADRC table into the Smartform. Then it displayed the data in small letters. How should i Change that Data in Capital letters.
Thanks & Regards,
Rathnam.

Hi..
use translate stmt..
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STRING LIKE T,
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WRITE / STRING.
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TRANSLATE STRING TO LOWER CASE.
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Does anyone know how to do this? Currently, I have a small Widget in Dashboard that I found that does this perfectly, however, its too annoying to have to convert it and then copy & paste it into a Text application (ie. Page or Word).
I was hoping, no let me rephrase, dreaming that Pages could do so, but I don't think it does; so I was hoping someone can tell me if they know of any programs that I can use that does just that.
Some great features that I would like, but not necessary, is:
1) that it allows you to export directly into any applicaiton (ie, Pages or Word)
2) the ability to convert from non-capital letters (sentences, paragraphs and even pages in bulk) to capital letters.
Anyone? I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad. Thanks!

Hi DennisG
This initially seemed odd to me too.
I think it is because Pages retains the original Unicode character and regards capitalization as a formatting change - not a change to the character code itself. To illustrate, type the sentence "Dinner is booked for Dennis and Ian on Friday afternoon at 1pm." into Pages. You will notice that as you toggle between All Caps and None for the Capitalization setting, the appropriate case is preserved for things like proper nouns and the start of the sentence. Not a big deal for one sentence but imagine you had hundreds or thousands of sentences that you wanted in the same style and wished to experiment with presenting them in capitals!
Pages isn't alone in doing this. Microsoft Word on Windows behaves the same way if you select the All caps check box in the Font dialog. Word provides a separate Change Case ... menu option that seems to permanently convert the actual characters instead of their appearance.
I think it would be useful for Pages to have a similar feature and suggest that Vito submits feedback in the normal manner.
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Hi Seba,
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