Better PDF OCR: ClearScan is smaller, looks better

Hi abhishek,

Both Acrobat Std & Pro support OCR and export. You can actually run the OCR process when you export a file to Word.
You can find more details on Acrobat Std & Pro here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/how-to/ocr-software-convert-pdf-to-text.html

Thanks,
Lori

Hi ,
I want to know About adobe acrobat pro OCR Functionality.
How We can Extract the text from PDF & what will be the out put format.
also want to know about the License cost and in which version of Adobe acrobat has this OCR feature ??

kindly reply

Hi Daniel Ford,

Try using the Native Scanner interface instead of Acrobat. Something scanners don’t always report the correct page size. You can find this in the Custom Scan dialog under the Options button. Also, you can only rotate in 90 degree increments in Acrobat but you can use the deskew tool to straighten images.

Thanks,
Lori

When I scan the photo from Fujitsu Fi-6770 with Adobe Acrobat pro in custom mode for paper size such as 4"x6”, the scanned image always came in half image (other half being off of the scanned picture). I tried to use other paper size with same results until I selected C5 which showed the whole image but with white block attached under the image which is not desired. How can I produce whole 4"x6” images scans?
Another question.  Can I rotate the images in smaller degrees like 1, 3, 6, 11, etc instead of 90, 180 or 270?

Hi John,

Can you please post your question in the Acrobat forum so our experts can help you interactively:

https://answers.acrobatusers.com/AskQuestion.aspx

Thanks,

Patty

Hi Ben,

Has then PDF been secured? You’ll see the word secured in the title bar or a lock icon will appear in the navigation pane on the left. If so, you’ll need to get the password from the author before you can edit the file.

Thanks,
Lori

I want my PDF to have searchable text and I have succeded that however once the text where recognized the PDF went crooked. How do I get it straight?

I have received an interactive Acrobat pdf; however, I am unable to edit the document or fill in the requested information.  I am currently running Acrobat XI Standard. What do I have to do to edit the interactive Acrobat pdf?

Hi Inderjit Singh,

Please see this tutorial on How to audit and optimize a PDF file using Acrobat XI Pro for details on how to reduce the filesize:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-audit-and-optimize-a-pdf-file

Thanks,
Lori

Sir,

I want to reudce to text scanned pdf file of 60 pages.  Advise how to bring the 25 MB file to less than 3 MB file .

Hi Raul,

Please see this tutorial on how to edit a scanned document:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-edit-a-scanned-pdf-file

Thanks,
Lori

DESEO REEMPLAZAR UN NOMBRE DESDE UN DOCUMENTO ESCANEADO A TRAVÉS DEL ADOBE ACROBAT PRO.

COMO DEBO DE REALIZARLO?

DESIRE TO REPLACE A NAME FROM A DOCUMENT SCANNING THROUGH THE ADOBE ACROBAT PRO .

HOW SHOULD I BE PERFORMED ?

Hi Heather,

You’ll need to correct the OCR suspects to correct the misidentified characters. Here is a tutorial that explains how to do this:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-find-and-correct-ocr-errors

Thanks,
Lori

Interesting. I should have known this before! It still works with Acrobat XI. My question is what happens with misidentified characters? The resulting text is sometimes different. Will this wrong result be displayed instead? Thanks.

Hi Steven,

I would recommend using the Optimize Scanned PDF command modify your scanned settings. Here is a tutorial on the subject:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-do-i-optimize-a-scanned-pdf-document

Thanks,
Lori

It seems that the reason it could take more than an hour to print an OCR’d document is the initial scan setting. The way I understood this, if the scan quality is not too good, OCRing it will produce a lont-time-to-print PDF. To avoid the issue in the future I thought to change my scan settings (on a Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-5110EOXM) to “Excellent” which means slower, like to 10 pages per minute. But what about converting all of those slow PDF’s into a faster-printing ClearScan document? Can I re-OCR a batch of Searchable Image files to turn them into ClearScan files?

Hi Jim,

If you’re interested in how to edit text in a scanned PDF, check out:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-do-i-edit-text-in-a-scanned-pdf

Hope this helps,

Patty

The link I clicked was how to Edit text in a scanned PDF… this tutorial is great for Recognizing text… not editing it…

I was successfully redacting a number of scanned PDF files, but there were a couple pop up boxes.  I checked the boxes so they would not be shown again.  Now when I go to search the scanned docs for SSN patterns, Adobe says it is not finding any documents to scan.

I replied to this feed because the last thing I saw before successfully executing my redaction was the same “Recognize text” pop-up you show above.

How do I “uncheck” the boxes I asked to never see again and/or redact these documents now that I’ve checked the boxes?

Can you post your question on our User-to-User security forum so that we can help you interactively?
http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/security_&_digital_signatures

Thanks,
Lori