Another way to get experience with the quality of Acrobat OCR is to use Acrobat
Pro, which can do functionally the same thing, with a less batch-oriented
interface. We ended up using this at a fairly large scale to meet a similar
need.
We have documentation on preparing PDFs that we supply for submitters, and that
you may find useful, at
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/html/2027.42/40244/PDF-Best_Practice.html
The section toward the bottom provides instructions on making image PDF files
searchable.
Cory Snavely
University of Michigan Library IT Core Services
----- Original Message -----
From: Jennifer Ash
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:55 AM
Subject: [Dspace-tech] Searching PDF-scanned documents: Adobe Capture
asolution?
Dear Community Members
The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently assessing a
pilot installation of DSpace.
We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC research
reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa) issues (this is
the primary goal; other collections will most likely be added over time).
We are faced with a problem in that most of our older publications are not in
electronic format and will have to be scanned.
Scanning and saving as PDF does not provide a full text searchable document
in DSpace; I've tried it.
A product, Adobe Capture, is advertised as a 'tool that teams with your
scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF) files'.
We are keen to investigate this product but there are no trial downloads
offered by Adobe.
Do you have any knowledge of this product? Can you advise on a suitable
tehnology solution for our problem? Our backlog is vast and spans many years,
so there are loads of documents that need to be scanned.
I do hope someone can give me advice.
Kind regards
Jennifer Ash
..............
Business Systems Manager
Water Research Commission
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