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1. Re: Clean Fonts and Text Recognition
Varinder.Saini Aug 23, 2013 12:25 AM (in response to SIcsempertyrannis)Hey,
You mean the OCR stopped working on the same tiff file on which it worked before? or did you convert the illustrator file again to tiff?
1. What do you mean by "font handling application" ? Are you talking about Font Book or something else?
2. What were the bogus fonts? and how did you delete them?
3. Please let us know the fonts that are there in the file that you were able to OCR successfully. You can view the fonts in the file from Document Properties dialog. Press "Command +D" in Acrobat when that file is open and then navigate to "Fonts" tab .
Thanks
Varinder
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2. Re: Clean Fonts and Text Recognition
SIcsempertyrannis Aug 25, 2013 7:45 PM (in response to Varinder.Saini)Yes, the OCR stopped working on the same tiff file. I'm not sure why. I did get it to work again after re-saving the original illus file as a tiff in photoshop and re-running the OCR and messing with the settings. Seems sometimes it works better when it is set to Clear Scan and sometimes it works better when it is set to Searchable Image.
The Font Application is Font Agent Pro. The bogus fonts were fonts that didnt even show up as having font family names. Just an X in the viewer window for some of them. I work at a company where when we--the print productiion crew leaves--the digital crew comes in and they just add every Tom, Dick & Harry font that they find on the internet to the sets. I deleted them by de-activating and deleting from the app which is the procedure for deleting fonts in this application. When u delete them they are actually removed from your machine unless you export them first. So far, I find FAP flakey. It rarely opens fonts dynamically and often eschews good fonts as being corrupt. That being said, I really dont know what the issue was that I was having with OCR. I believe the font in the file was Arial. Thank you for your response.


