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Automate the OCR Process with VBA

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2007-10-04 09:30:23
jon.townsend
Registered: Oct 4 2007
Posts: 2

Can you use VBA to OCR a PDF? Or do you have to manually OCR a PDF and then extract the text via VBA?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.5, Windows
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2007-10-15 09:22:21
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leonardr
Expert
Registered: Feb 14 2006
Posts: 333
The OCR functionality of Acrobat is not accesible to VB directly. You would either need to write a custom plugin to Acrobat (in C/c++) and then call that from your VB script - OR do it manually, as you note.

Leonard

Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Architect
Adobe Systems

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