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1. Re: OCR recognition/interactive PDF?
CtDave Oct 7, 2013 3:16 PM (in response to emily_mfg)Textual content mastered in InDesign is searchable when it is processed to become PDF. No OCR needed. Now, when you have that paper with textual content and scan it to an image which is then brought into PDF - well, that PDF page content (the image of the text) is what'd need OCR.
Be well...
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2. Re: OCR recognition/interactive PDF?
emily_mfg Oct 7, 2013 3:30 PM (in response to CtDave)Thanks so much for your response. I thought that might be the case (since you can select and cut/paste text, etc)... it's just odd as the search engine on our e-publishing system doesn't seem to be recognizing any of the text in the PDFs... I thought it was a problem with the PDF, but perhaps it's an issue with the search function of the site itself.
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3. Re: OCR recognition/interactive PDF?
Dave Merchant Oct 7, 2013 4:09 PM (in response to emily_mfg)Did you apply protection to the PDF to stop people from editing it? A lot of third-party indexing systems will ignore anything that has encryption, even if the text remains searchable.


