Changing existing PDF documents to have Readable Text

[Guest]

Our company would like to use text finding software to locate words in documents. However, pre-existing documents that were scanned in as PDF documents must be re-saved / OCR'd to be "Readable Text" in order for any text searching software to work.

Does Adobe have anything that can convert these old PDF documents in bulk to Readable Text documents?

[try67]

Yes, Adobe Acrobat Pro has OCR capabilities.

[Guest]

I understand that Adobe has OCR capability. However, that does not fix the problem on a Large Scale. We are talking about 10 years of past documents that were not saved this way. The question is whether there is software that exists that can change Adobe documents (not individually) but on a large scale to be Readable Text? Unless there's something I'm missing in Acrobat??

[try67]

Acrobat Pro has batch processing capabilities, but they are very limited and probably won't work in your case.

Adobe doesn't offer other products that do that, as far I know. ABBYY does, though.