2 Replies Latest reply: Aug 25, 2013 7:45 PM by SIcsempertyrannis RSS

    Clean Fonts and Text Recognition

    SIcsempertyrannis Community Member

      Last Friday I was asked to re-type 2 documents for a client that were supplied to me as outlined illustrator files. I had no intention or desire in doing so. So I took one file and converted it to a tiff in photoshop. I then ran text recognition on it in AcrobatXI and it worked like a charm. Today, when I came back to work, someone had added a bunch of bogus fonts to my font handling application. I immediately deleted them and restarted my machine. However, when I tried to convert the 2nd file I was unable to get OCR to work effectively at all today. Including on the file that I had successfully converted last Friday. Tonight, I brought the files home with me to try and convert them on my home computer and was able to do so here at home with no problem whatsoever. My question is--are the fonts to blame? I cant think of any other reason why it would work last week on my "clean computer" at work and on my "clean computer" at home and not today after the bogus fonts were found. And if the fonts were to blame why wouldnt it work after I trashed the bad fonts and restarted the machine? Any thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated. to help troubleshoot this problem. Thank you.

        • 1. Re: Clean Fonts and Text Recognition
          Varinder.Saini Adobe Employee

          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

          • 2. Re: Clean Fonts and Text Recognition
            SIcsempertyrannis Community Member

            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.