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How to fix OCR resize of pages

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2009-03-17 12:31:12
Lady Cygnus
Registered: Mar 17 2009
Posts: 19

I have a scanned document which I OCR using the following settings:
Primary Language: English
PDF Output Style: Searchable Image
Downsample: Lowest (600 dpi)

When it OCR's it deskews the page (something I want it to do), but then it also resizes the pages so they appear sloppy upon scroll through.

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Is there anyway to get the OCR with aligned output pages, align them now, or perhaps another way to deskew them before doing an exact image OCR?

thanks,
Christina

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2009-03-19 10:34:46
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Lady Cygnus
Registered: Mar 17 2009
Posts: 19
Ok, I've found an adequate solution to this problem:

Document > Optimize Scanned PDF > make sure deskew is "automatic"
Document > Reduce file size
Document > OCR using the settings:
- Primary Language: English
- PDF Output Style: Searchable Image (exact)

It works and only makes the file 1M larger than it was before. I would like to use the OCR searchable image (non-exact) since it lines up the text column a bit more towards the center and is a smaller size, but when I do it inserts lines around the tilted page borders. Oh well.

Thanks for the wall with which to post my thoughts,
Christina
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