These forums are now Read Only. If you have an Acrobat question, ask questions and get help from one of our experts.

Make PDF Text Searchable via ColdFusion Web Server

2008-03-11 10:32:58

bkapla1

Registered: Mar 11 2008

Posts: 4

I have developed a Cold Fusion application that allows users to upload PDF files. Not all users have the appropriate software to convert their scanned documents into text searchable documents.

I would like to know if there is a way to perform this conversion programatically at the time that they upload their file to the Cold Fusion Web Server so that all PDF file uploads are automatically converted to a text-searchable PDF.

We currently use Adobe Professional version 7 and Cold Fusion 8.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.9, Windows

2008-03-11 11:09:38

thomp

Registered: Feb 15 2006

Posts: 4411

What you are talking about is performing OCR (Optical character recognition) on a scanned image. There may be some server side OCR tool you could get that works with PDF, but I don't know. I'm sure that there isn't anything built into Cold Fusion for this.

OCR is built into Acrobat, so, you could have your users upload the PDF from inside Acrobat using an Automation script to do a full PDF submit. The automation script could "hit" the OCR menu item as part of the process. But you can't do everything from the script. The user would have to enter some data.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

2008-03-11 11:14:05