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Find ALL non-searchable PDFs them make them searchable.

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2010-02-20 11:41:41
kbrown
Registered: Oct 22 2009
Posts: 18

Hello Experts

I want to find all non-searchable PDFs. Then I want to make all of those searchable.

Questions:

1) What is the best way to find ALL non-searchable PDFs on a disk or in a folder?

2) After these have all been identified, what is the best way to bulk process them to become searchable?

Thanks!

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2010-02-27 12:00:49
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
An Acrobat Preflight Profile can be created that will provide a report that can identify if a PDF, containing a scanned image of text has hidden text (OCR output).
Those PDFs identified as not having hidden text can have OCR applied.
An Acrobat Pro Batch Sequence can be used to OCR the identified PDFs.

See fourth post of this thread:

[url]http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=15650[/url]

Be well...

Be well...

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2010-03-01 10:42:59
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lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Leonard also detailed how to do this in his Tech Talk last week titled [url=http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p91117955/]Hidden Gems in Preflight[/url].

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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