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Scan OCR PDF using Acrobat 6 Pro?

donz082
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 15

Our office is rapidly expanding in the area of scanning documents. We are temporarily using Adobe Acrobat 6 Pro (until we are authorized to purchase more Acrobat 8 Pro seats). Can we scan docs and make them OCR PDF using Acrobat 6 Pro?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 6.0.0, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

Yes, you can. Follow these steps:

1. Choose Create PDF > From Scanner. Follow the dialog boxes and prompts to scan the file into Acrobat.2. Save the file.

3. Choose Tools > Paper Capture to open the Paper Capture dialog box. (Click Edit to open the Paper Capture Settings dialog box and choose any options you want to change from the defaults; click OK to return to the main Paper Capture dialog box).4. Click OK to start the capture.

The page is rasterized, followed by the page recognition and structure processes.

donna.

A prolific author and writer of many Acrobat books, as well as books on graphic and Web design software.
Donna lives on a lakeshore in central Canada, where all manner of wildlife from muskrats to coyotes come to call.

jbrown56
Registered: Oct 4 2007
Posts: 7
I dont think this was really talking about the pro 6 version because the things it said to find were not there. help
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

Quite right. I listed how to do the task using Acrobat 8; some of which isn't available in Acrobat 6.

You can accomplish the same thing in Acrobat 6 following these steps:

1. Choose Create PDF > From Scan. In the dialog box, select a scanner, page format, and destination; your scanner's interface displays.
2. Set options in the scanner settings, and follow the process for your particular scanner to complete the scan.
3. Click Done and save the PDF file.

Next, use the OCR process to convert the scanned image PDF to text, following these steps:

1. Choose Tools > Paper Capture. In the resulting dialog box, click Edit to open the Paper Capture Settings dialog box, and choose the options you want to use.
2. Click OK to close the dialog box, returning to the main Paper Capture dialog box. Click OK to start the capture.

Hope that helps.

donna.

A prolific author and writer of many Acrobat books, as well as books on graphic and Web design software.
Donna lives on a lakeshore in central Canada, where all manner of wildlife from muskrats to coyotes come to call.