Re: Xy3 - reference manuals

[Myron Gochnauer goch@xxxxxxxx]

> ≪Scan-to-pdf programs start with an image file and then run an OCR
> routine on the image to produce a PDF that contains searchable text.
> Acrobat does this. If you don't run the OCR part of the process, you
> end
> up with pure image files.≫
> I have scanned from Acrobat 5.0 full version (not Reader) and all I
> get
> is an image file, noneditable and nonsearchable. The OCR routine
> appears, as you described, in version 6.0, but is a multi-mouse-click
> process for each page. It is extremely tedious (without even
> proofreading); I don't want to do this for several hundred pages of
> text.
I am now using Acrobat 9 for Mac. If I have a multi-page image PDF,
choosing "Recognize Text Using OCR" will process the entire document
without user intervention.
And, of course, Acrobat can combine a series of image files into a
single PDF, so even if my scanner only outputs a series of TIFF files,
there are only two steps needed to convert them into a searchable
PDF. As some have noted, other OCR programs may do a better job than
Acrobat.
I do not know when these features appeared in Acrobat. I *think* they
were there in version 8.

Myron