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I'm using Acrobat 8 professional. When I print a TIFF image of a document using the Adobe PDF Converter, the result is a non-searchable pdf document. When I print a text file to the Adobe PDF Converter, the result is a searchable pdf file.
I need to know if the Adobe PDF Converter is performing an automatic OCR in the background for non-image items?
What would I have to do if I printed a text file to the Adobe PDF Converter and did NOT desire searchable output?
I'm curious about what is really happening in the backgroiund to see if Acrobat will meet our requiremnts for a project.
Thanks in advance.
The image (TIFF) has been imported into PDF. No image, even one of textual content is "searchable".
The output PDF contains renderable text; not an image, thus, it is searchable.
the PDF is renderable and the default would always be searchable.
If the output PDF's content is an image then, as with any image, the content is not searchable, as-is.
Post processing the PDF's image with OCR would provide a "layer" of OCR characters. This hidden text supports search.
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