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OCR: Acrobat 9 or Readiris 11?

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2009-04-07 10:34:06
mrcmrc
Registered: Apr 7 2009
Posts: 5
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Hi all,

I have to OCR many PDF and make them searchable. I've both Acrobat 9 and Readiris 11, both on Mac, anyone know of any important difference between the OCR process of the two software (which one is better to use?).

Many thanks!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1, Macintosh
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2009-04-07 12:34:38
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radzmar
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Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
I used ReadIris a while for OCR-ing scanned PDF's and think it's a very good program to do this.
Especially you have documents with alot of images or technical drawings.
Acrobat itself is also very good in this discipline.

So I wont get say this one or that one is better.
It depends on what your doing.

Just ocr several files for testing on both programs and see which one produces the better results for you.

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2009-04-08 04:23:18
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mrcmrc
Registered: Apr 7 2009
Posts: 5
radzmar wrote:
I used ReadIris a while for OCR-ing scanned PDF's and think it's a very good program to do this.
Especially you have documents with alot of images or technical drawings.
Acrobat itself is also very good in this discipline.

So I wont get say this one or that one is better.
It depends on what your doing.

Just ocr several files for testing on both programs and see which one produces the better results for you.
Thanks for your reply.

I've got Readiris 11 with a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M scanner (very useful gadget), I started using it and works fine. Only Readiris isn't the "corporate" edition, so it's limited to 50 pages docs. This - for my kind of jobs - is pretty boring. Then I thought about Acrobat Pro 9 that I used to refine my scanned docs, I noted that do also OCR and just thinking about giving a try, just because there is no document pages limit.

Thanks again however for your message ;-)
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