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Looking for Help in Batch Publishing SWF Images to PDF with Searchable Text

mikeg95a
Registered: Jun 21 2011
Posts: 2

Hi Users,
 
I could really use some help on this.
Our solution generates a floor plan in flash with text to show each room number.
If I print to PDF (using the acrobat distiller) from the flash window (right-click menu) then the resulting PDF image text is able to be found using the ctrl-f search in the acrobat reader (although the sizing and placement is off).
 
I have now been tasked with finding a better way of handling the printouts from the server side for batch publish straight to PDF. We do this by converting the swf into a png image, however the end result is that the text in the pdf is NOT searchable unless I use the acrobat OCR functionality to discover the image text in the resultant pdf.
 
We don't want every user to need to have Acrobat in order to use searching in their pdf's. So my ultimate question is, how can i either
a. render the image text as searchable during publish to pdf or
b. run a batch operation on the pdf's through the OCR process?
 
Many thanks in advance.
 
Mike

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 10.1, Windows
try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Once the files have been OCRed in Acrobat, they can be searched in both Acrobat and the free Reader (or any other conforming application).
One of the built-in Action commands is to OCR the file, so my suggestion is to create all of your files, OCR the entire folder using an Action, and then publish the OCRed versions.

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mikeg95a
Registered: Jun 21 2011
Posts: 2
Thank you very much for your response.

Unfortunately, this approach will not work for me, because our floor plans contain a lot of dynamic data (room labels and room highlights) that are updated in real time.

Therefore, I need a solution that can be run automatically at the time the PDF is generated.
Do you think this is possible?