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OCR susupects after ClearScan/Searchable Image

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2010-06-07 03:11:54
grady.mcghee
Registered: Oct 10 2008
Posts: 22

Why doesn't Clear Scan and Searchable Image find OCR suspects after it does the OCR? When I do the OCR then print out, accessible text, to see what is looks like, there is a lot of garbage on the page. In version 8 I get the OCR suspects that I are issues.

Is there any solution to this. I just can't put out PDF that have garbage in it.

thx

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-06-08 03:44:08
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pdf_fanatic
Registered: Jun 4 2010
Posts: 22
Check for your printer driver compatibility Acrobat 9.3.


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2010-06-09 03:34:59
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grady.mcghee
Registered: Oct 10 2008
Posts: 22
The issue is that using ClearScan or Searchable Image; then using Find Suspects always gives back "Find complete". There are no issues. When I run "Find Suspects" in Acrobat 8, it finds the issues. The way I know this is if I take my screen reader and read the document, I get some garbage. If I print it out to accessible text, I get some garbage. It is most 90% good but I need to be able to fix that other 10%.

I ran across another thread it seems that ClearScan, for Finding Suspects is still broken even after all these issues have been raised on the last couple of years.
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2010-06-09 05:12:20
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DuffJohnson
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Registered: May 30 2006
Posts: 96
grady.mcghee wrote:
Why doesn't Clear Scan and Searchable Image find OCR suspects after it does the OCR? When I do the OCR then print out, accessible text, to see what is looks like, there is a lot of garbage on the page. In version 8 I get the OCR suspects that I are issues.Is there any solution to this. I just can't put out PDF that have garbage in it.
There is no way to "correct" ClearScan output. It is what it is, and that's not gonna change.

Consider the problem: For a given document of, say, 10 pages, the ClearScan engine recognized (say) 10 different glyphs representing the letter "a".

Which should it use for OCR correction purposes when you go to type an "a"? There's no way to know....

If you want corrected OCR then you'll need to go with a different output style.

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