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Run Auto Field Detection

tmcgee
Registered: Jul 17 2007
Posts: 2

Sometimes when I create an interactive form, the option to "Run Auto Field Detection" is grayed out and not an option. I can't figure out why some PDF files have this option while others don't.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi tmcgee,

Are you starting with a scanned document for the PDFs with the Field Detection command greyed out? A scanned PDF contains no actual text- it is just a static representation of the document so the tool has nothing to work with. If this is the case, you need to run OCR ( Optical Character Recognition) on the PDF first so Acrobat has something to detect.

Hope that helps,

Dimitri
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