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Problem with OCR

Apr 16, 2012 12:51 AM

When trying to OCR a document I got the error message : "Acrobat cannot OCR this page: This page contains text to be generated" (translation from my French version)

Any clue?

700 Views   5 Replies   Latest reply: 00derek, May 4, 2012 9:23 AM
 
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  • Bernd Alheit
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    1. Bernd Alheit,
    Apr 18, 2012 8:35 AM   in reply to 13JC
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    It isn't a error, it is a information.

     
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  • 13JC
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    2. 13JC,
    Apr 18, 2012 9:59 AM   in reply to Bernd Alheit
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    So, have you any idea of the way to recognize the text included in this file ?

     
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  • CtDave
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    3. CtDave,
    Apr 18, 2012 3:23 PM   in reply to 13JC
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    "So, have you any idea of the way to recognize the text included in this file?"

     

    A PDF page containing renderable text cannot be OCR'd - (that is to say "recognized" by OCR).

     

    Be well...

     
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  • Bernd Alheit
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    4. Bernd Alheit,
    Apr 19, 2012 6:21 AM   in reply to 13JC
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    So, have you any idea of the way to recognize the text included in this file ?

    Save the document as TIFF. Combine the TIFF files to a new document. Perform OCR on this new document.

     
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  • 00derek
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    5. 00derek,
    May 4, 2012 9:23 AM   in reply to Bernd Alheit
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    I'm interested if the last suggestion was helpful. I'm trying to convert pdf files (that were created by scanning paper documents) to searchable pdf.

     

    Under my Tools>Recognize Text>In this file, the "In this file" option is greyed out.

     

    There are no security restrictions on the document.

     

    Can anyone help?

     
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