My family has asked me to scan and convert several volumes of family history books that one of my other family members has printed. I've scanned all of the pages of the first volume and it looks pretty decent. Given that the book is some 200+ pages, I need to bookmark the document so that it is usable and searchable.
In reading through the documentation that I've found so far, it appears that I need to do something with tags etc. in order to get it in order properly. I haven't got a clue as to how to go about doing this. I'm hoping that someone can walk me through the process that I should go through to make sure that I set this thing up properly and efficiently so that it is of the most use to my family.
I should mention that I'm using Acrobat 8 Pro, and that when I scanned, the document was automatically OCR'd. While I'm not sure what the OCR text looks like, the headings and titles that I would like to be able to use to break the document down and bookmark it are normally in a larger font size, sometimes in all caps, and normally in bold.
If need be, I would be willing to scan the book all over again, but I'm hoping that wont be necessary. Thanks in advance for the help.
-Rob
tags, scanned documents, bookmarks, etc.
2007-07-27 08:32:54
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Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows
Acrobat Pro 8.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375, Windows
A couple of notes:
1. The OCR feature will give you a document that is searchable. You can control to process by asking it to OCR without eliminating the scanned version of the text. Instead of letting the automated process handle the OCR, do it after the fact by selecting Document, OCR Text Recognition, Recognize text using OCR. In the recognize text dialog box, click Edit and choose Searchable Image. The result will be a document that looks like what the scanner gave but has a layer of text under the image so you can search it.
2. As for the Bookmarks, you don't need to tag the document to create them. Navigate to the page you want to bookmark. In the bookmark panel (View, Navigation Panels, Bookmarks), click the New Bookmark icon. The order of the pages in the book has nothing to do with the actual page order of the book. In fact, you can move the pages in the document after the fact without affecting the bookmarks. It's a bit of a manual process, but well worth the effort.
3. If you are looking for an automated way to add bookmarks, you may want to look at any one of a variety of bookmarking plug-ins available for Acrobat.
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