So, sounds wonderful. How much does Adobe Acrobat XI Pro cost? On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:09 PM, John Robinson wrote:
> We each have our own interest, the things that really make us love our Mac's. > I doubt what I mention will interest few but I would be remiss if I didn't > send your way. > > I need to be able to search PDF files, bunches of them. I bought a good > business scanner, does a wonderful job of chewing up the pages and I had > scanned in at least 10 Forbes magazines when I came to my senses and realized > I couldn't search on them. How dumb. They had not been scanned with an OCR > (Optical Character Recognition) software. > > I began searching and found some options but was that the best idea? Somehow > I stumbled onto Adobe's Acrobat XI Pro. and downloaded the trial. > > This is the most awesome piece of software for what I need, and it also > allowed me to take the previous scans and run them through the OCR portion of > Acrobat and make them usable so all that time and effort was not wasted. > > So many features that other PDF software will do like, PDF Pen Pro, but you > also get the OCR!!! > > Once started you indicate you want to create a PDF from a scanned document, > it opens your scanners (I use three for different operations) and choose the > one you want, it launches Epson Scan software and you make your adjustments > inside the Epson software for what you want, single sided, double, dpi, and > all the adjustments offered. Then hit scan. Adobe takes over and begins the > scan. Once it's done it quits the Epson program and launches the document. > > Of course it goes much slower as it's doing the OCR work as it scans but > shortly another Forbes is complete. Sometimes, not always, the front cover > is upside down, but hit the rotate button and it's corrected. I go through > and remove all the advertisements and then save the file. I have done word > searches on each magazine, finds them every time. I have also used Spotlight > to attempt various searches and it now finds the wording inside any of the > magazines where it will appear. > > I also had a doctors form to be filled out so I scanned and completed it > inside Acrobat, then printed the copy I have to take with me. I had one > previous scan that I didn't remember to add the pages that were smaller so I > was going to have to merge the two, Acrobat was a breeze. > > I am thrilled beyond belief, as I have mentioned before I am going to use > Sonar to index the PDF's and then create extensive and savable searches but > without the software to create the OCR I was up the creek. > > Just in case someone has a need similar to mine I can certainly recommend > this setup. > > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
