2 Replies Latest reply: Apr 20, 2011 5:37 AM by asdfabcedasf RSS

    How to remove existing OCR in batch processing?

    asdfabcedasf Community Member

      I don't see that there is a way to remove existing OCR in batch processing. Could you please let me know if it is available somewhere, or it is indeed not available?

        • 1. Re: How to remove existing OCR in batch processing?
          Bill@VT CommunityMVP

          It can be removed, but not easily. If you used clearscan your only choice is to print to another file, but that does not fix anything that got messed up. You can not really back out of the Clearscan format. This is one of the reasons the warnings are given about the permanent changes you are about to do. If you used searchable OCR, then you should be able to delete the text layer and then use save as to only retain the scans.

          • 2. Re: How to remove existing OCR in batch processing?
            asdfabcedasf Community Member

            Bill@VT wrote:

             

            It can be removed, but not easily. If you used clearscan your only choice is to print to another file, but that does not fix anything that got messed up. You can not really back out of the Clearscan format. This is one of the reasons the warnings are given about the permanent changes you are about to do. If you used searchable OCR, then you should be able to delete the text layer and then use save as to only retain the scans.

             

             

            I think that you may misread my question. I know how to remove OCR for a single pdf with searchalbe image OCR option (examine pdf then remove hidden text). But I want to do so in "batch processing" as I have many pdf files need to be processed.