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Disabling Deskew or importing ORC data

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2009-10-06 03:56:32
stevep
Registered: Oct 2 2009
Posts: 4

Hi

Wondering if anyone can help please? I'm working on Professional v7 doing a fair bit of processing of scanned documents we're moving on-line.

Historically we're scanned as both high resolution tiffs, for archiving and as pdf for on-line acces, with OCRing of the pdfs being done automatically when scanned.

Because this is rather laborious we were looking at just scanning the tiffs, then having me, using Professional, feed them into pdf and preform OCR operations to generate the pdf. However ran into the problem that the deskewer was often picking up the wrong information and twisting pages off alignment. Can't see any way to switch it off.

Alternatively we also looked at getting the OCRing done on the tiff. Using the MS Document Imager this could be done pretty quickly and picked up more of the actual text than the Acrobat OCR according to a colleague who was looking at it. Problem is we can't find a way to fed this into Acrobat as it seems to take then as images, dropping the text details.

If anyone knows a solution to either of the above problems, or an alternative way of getting what we want that would be very useful.

Thanks

Steve

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 7.0, Windows
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2009-10-06 10:27:51
#1
eduardo
Registered: Oct 6 2009
Posts: 1
hello, I could work, acquired a license adobe acrobat 9 standard, and I need to know how I can through security, blocking the option to save the document
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2009-10-07 10:50:51
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
1) there's no way to pass to a PDF the OCR data captured with MSDI
2) set deskew to OFF (see create PDF > from scanner > document optimization > click options button)
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2009-10-09 01:22:58
#3
stevep
Registered: Oct 2 2009
Posts: 4
rbogie wrote:
1) there's no way to pass to a PDF the OCR data captured with MSDI
2) set deskew to OFF (see create PDF > from scanner > document optimization > click options button)
rbogie

Pity about the external OCR but getting rid of deskew will make that route more efficicent.

Many thanks

Steve
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2009-10-14 07:27:48
#4
stevep
Registered: Oct 2 2009
Posts: 4
Guys

Just to update, for info purposes mainly. The suggested solution didn't display the PDFOptimizer where rbogie mentioned. Possibly I have a slightly different version of Professional v7.0? However knowing the command I located it under the Advanced tag. :)

Unfortunately when I looked for the scanned pages sub-set the filters are all grayed out! Including the top one which is the deskew setting and is set to automatic. :( Think its the desktop support guys at my company as security gets rather intrusive on what we're allowed to do. Was hoping to get a solution before now but just chased up the guy in question and since its not a quick fix its gone into a pile of jobs to do and unclear when anyone will start looking at it. Ain't buercarcy [sp?] wonderful.

On the bright side one of the points he mentioned is they might allow an upgrade to v 9.0 in case that would solve it. :)

Anyway, thanks for the information.

Steve
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