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Prevent automatic ocr

johnaquilina
Registered: Jan 31 2009
Posts: 2

Hi,
software: Using Acrobat Adobe 7.0 Standard with the updates.
hardware: Running on an HP laptop w/ XP and SP3.
Problem: when Adobe opens a file it seems to OCR it automatically.
This prevents us from OCRing the file. How do I turn this off?
- A small file in WORDPAD printed to Adobe Printer, then opened in Adobe has text.
- A file with Bates Numbers opened from CDROM has text (the bates numbers)

I found the article that says upgrading to version 8.1 will ignore the margins where the bates numbers are located. I do not want to upgrade at this time.

I also tried printing the PDF file to a PDF file of another name (to remove the readable text). But when the new files was opened in READER or STANDARD, it had selectable text. Is there a way to prevent the creation of the readable text?

Thank you,
JA

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 7.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hello JA,

It may be, perhaps, that you have PDF files which, not containing a scanned image of text, do not require OCR.
See also: [url]http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=333110[/url]

The output PDF from WordPad contains renderable text and not an image of text.
Nothing to OCR. The characters are already "digital", as it were.

The PDFs on the CD-ROM may be the same.
However, if the PDFs hold image content from scanning and then the Bates Numbering was added
you should be able to OCR the PDFs with Acrobat's OCR engine.
Of course you'll have to work on a copy transferred to your local machine.

Used Acrobat Professional to add Bates Numbering to PDFs with scanned text content.
Ran Acrobat OCR successfully.
Admit this was a new data point for me. To date, when I've had renderable text together with
a scanned image of text on a PDF page the Acrobat OCR engine has not processed that page.
(back to the books for more study )Just an observation.
Out of the box installs of Acrobat 4, 5 *full*, 5 *Business Edition*, 6 pro, 7 pro, 8 pro & 8 3D do not provide a
default, "automatic" OCR of scanned text imported into PDF when such a PDF is opened.
The user has to initiate the process.
Note that Acrobat 7 Standard does not provide an OCR engine.
[url=http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acro7_matrix.pdf]Acrobat 7 Product Comparison[/url].

Be well...

Be well...

billpayer
Registered: Sep 2 2010
Posts: 1
I have Adobe 9 and on my HP laptop, when I scan in a document, a "shortcut" pop-up comes up and wants me to select the type of scan. If I select just a regular PDF file, it automatically reads it in using OCR. I do not want the OCR used. How can I get a regular PDF scan without using the OCR?

Billpayer