Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 Ocr For Mac

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Have you ever received a PDF file that did not contain searchable text? You may know that you can use Acrobat’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to add an invisible layer of searchable text on top of the file. This allows you to select, copy and search text on a paper document. What do you do when you have hundreds of TIFFs and Image-only PDFs file that you need to search for a big case? Working with these documents one at a time is not efficient. If you have Acrobat Professional, you can batch OCR and let you computer do the work for you.

NOTE: Acrobat 9 and up make this process much easier. Simply select Document>OCR Text Recognition>OCR Multiple Files. If you have Acrobat 9 and you just want to OCR a bunch of files, this is probably all you need! Acrobat X can do OCR as part of an Action, so you can combine OCR with other operations as part of a document processing workflow. Read on to learn how Batch Processing to the Rescue There are two steps to follow: • Set up a Batch Sequence • Run a Batch Sequence Set up a Batch Sequence Scan your documents locally or send to a PC where Acrobat Pro is installed.

If you have the capability, scan directly to PDF or to an MTIFF (multi-page TIFF). These formats allow all of the pages of a document to be maintained as a single file. • In Acrobat Professional 7, choose Advanced—>Batch Processing — or — In Acrobat Professional 8, choose Advanced—>Document Processing—>Batch Processing • Click the New Sequence button. • Give the sequence a name. • Click Select Commands • Choose Recognize Text Using OCR and click the Add button. • Double-click the Recognize Text using OCR text (right side of the window) to set OCR Options. -Set Downsample Images to 300 dpi.

Click OK • Click OK again to get back to the main window. • Click Output Options Note: Output Options allows you specify where the OCR’d files should be written. I suggest writing them to a local drive and copying later to a network store. • Enable PDF Optimizer and Do not overwrite existing files. • Click the Settings Button. Adjust the settings to make the smallest possible files, especially for Black and White (monochrome) files: JBIG2 Lossless is very efficient and preserves the exact appearance of the text. Consider trying JBIG2 Lossy which causes some visual degradation, but can be up to 70% smaller than JBIG2 Lossless.

• Give the revised settings a name such as “B&W Lossy”. Run a Batch Sequence Now, all you need to do is to run the batch sequence.

• Place all the files you wish to process in a single folder on your hard drive. • In Acrobat Professional 7, choose Advanced—>Batch Processing – or – In Acrobat Professional 8, choose Advanced—>Document Processing—>Batch Processing • Select the sequence to run • Click OK • Select the folder to process • Click the Select button. • Select the Output Folder That’s it!

Sit back and enjoy a cup a coffee as Acrobat does the work for you. I have a question for you regarding batch processing of OCR. I am trying to convert a large group of.pdf files to searchable.pdf.

However when i follow the batch processing steps that you outline here [the software still makes me hit ok after each document is processed. Is there anyway to have it automatically convert all 20,000 files w/o pressing ok 20,000 times? ———— Rick’s Reply You don’t want to use the instructions from this article since it only applies to PDF Portfolios. Google calendar app for my mac workbook. Instead, use the instructions here. This is great stuff. Do you know of a way to take the same process as described in your article except make it so that any pdf which makes it’s way into a “monitored folder” is automatically added with an OCR layer?

Example might make this clearer. Suppose you had a high speed network scanner dumping files to a shared directory called “ LAW-SERVER1 SCANS NEEDS-OCR”. I am looking for a way to have the software automatically detect there is a new.pdf file in “ LAW-SERVER1 SCANS NEEDS-OCR” and than have it OCR’d, and as soon as the OCR process is complete, have it forwarded to “ LAW-SERVER1 SCANS ALREADY-BEEN-OCR” (obviously the names are just for illustration). In any case, if this can be done with acrobat, or acrobat in combination with some other process it would be amazingly useful for us and I am sure many other attorneys who don’t want (or don’t have the resources) to spend thousands on enterprise type scanning software. —– Rick’s Reply —- Acrobat doesn’t support hot folders, but you can easily set up a Batch Sequence that will take everything in one folder, OCR it, optionally rename it, optimize it and then place the files in another folder.