Eh ... Sorry .. shouldn't be in there then? So, from Bridge I select files then Tools > Photoshop then Image Processor or Batch to perform the action and save it. Running a batch and not saving the file ... (?) Bear with me, this is all new to me. So far correcting photos was one at the time. ... View more

Sorry, I am still having some issues with this matter. Not the actions or sets but more having problems with the way "Batch" and "Image Processor" are handling the output. What I want, when running batch/image processor from Bridge: 1. save the output, with a slightly different name (adding text to the file name), in the same folder as the originals 2. the originals should not be touched   -see below-         Any suggestions? (Maybe, what I want is simply not possible)   Thanks. ... View more

Thank you as well. I created two 'Sets' for a start and shifted them up the Actionlist, so in batch, they are presented  as first, so to say. Not sure if I should remove/delete the default entry. Backed up the two .atn files that I created. When running, the output is saved as a new file but the naming is somewhat changed (adding e.g. -AC- for Autocolor) so as to keep the originals, in case of disappointing results.   ... View more

Super! That worked out fine. Likely this is the level when you started out with Photoshop many, many years ago... 🙂 Again thanks. ... View more

Two (hopefully...) last questions   When starting the actions from Bridge > Tools > Photoshop > Batch: 1. How to set Image Options to "10, Maximum' by default? 2. How to disable this pop-up by default in case of Batch?   Thanks!     ... View more

Okay, I see.  I had to create a new set and drag the actions stuff into that.  (wrongly assumed that set itself included the actions. started out creating a set and then did the adjustments, assuming they would then be visible below the 'Set'). Probably I need two or maybe three different 'Sets' - 1. 'just' Autocolor (for many photos this, already, is quite sufficient) 2. some color balance correction, brightness and contrast (after the autocolor when that one appears to be not sufficient enough). Anyway, thanks again for pointing me into the right direction.   ... View more

Sorry to keep you waiting... I have been experimenting a bit, but probably there are one or two steps that I am doing wrong. Vainly tried to figure this out myself.   Screenshot 1 - ignore the contents of the photo - it is just an example (photo shot well over 20 years ago) Screenshot 2 - adjusted, it is at best 'fairly' acceptable   Then I went into "Actions" - there tried to create a new 'Set' -  but there no such thing as stop recording(?) Then a new action, recorded the steps. Done. Stopped recording. Now what? Is it stored somewhere, how to apply this in a batch?   It is a gray area for me.   ... View more

Ah! Right, thanks a lot. Going to experiment on that... Again thanks. ... View more

Yes, I use SumatraPDF by default. It is light weight and really fast, highlights stuff searched for incrementally, etc. Acrobat I use to create PDF, make them searchable, etc. Like @bedazzler said: renaming, just hit F2. Piece of cake.     I am using Acrobat Pro 2020, likely newer versions have more features. SumatraPDF can close a number of open files at once, using good old Pro 2020 I should close them one by one. As said: for creating it is Acrobat of course, but for viewing, handling, whatever, it is SumatraPDF for me.       ... View more

Many thanks indeed! Truly appreciate your elaborate reply. To be honest, with some shame, I have to confess that I didn't know this (the first 4 paragraphs of your reply, about the 'grey'-matter). I guess that refers to the "Dot gain 15% " then? (Acrobat, greyscale). I am not using a photo scanner, but a document scanner (with a document feeder, able to scan both sides). The scanner software does not have any special settings as far ar colour space is concerned. When enabled one can change brightness, contrast and Gamma, improve text, compression, image quality there is a slider between  'high compression' to 'high quality', but no colour space. This is for PDF. As for TIF compression settings are: none, or JPEG, or LZW, there are no other settings available.   It is an Epson Epson Manual PDF  In the documentation "Color Correction" is mentioned, but not where to find it. Just now I -finally- found it. By default 'Color Correction' is set to 'Automatic'. Users can go into 'Custom' setting and change things to their liking. There are a number of options. My monitor (HP) is calibrated to D65, D50 and P3  It is currently set to D65 (sRGB). It can also be set to AdobeRGB OTOH, if my memory serves me well, I once read that for 'normal' non-professional photos sRGB is quite sufficient. In Windows 10 settings > display I can select the monitor color profile HP AdobeRGB, which I can also do in Photoshop and can also set in the Advanced printer settings. This way, I think all is set using the same. Maybe that would be the best solution?           ... View more

Thank you! Yes, I know about the 'TIF-preference'. Sorry for the delay. Yesterday I drafted a long reply. In between I did some tests, but could not finish as I had to go out for the rest of the day.   What I wanted to explain yesterday (but which by now is to some extend solved) was/is the reason why I usually try to use Acrobat. Basically Acrobat is using the scanning software of my printer (Epson). Windows is set to the colour space set by my monitor (HP Dreamcolour)  sRGB Acrobat is set to the same, of course. That's done yesterday, while I was writing this post. Before that no colour space was defined and I did not realize that. I think some 'Generic PnP monitor' was taken, I don't remember exactly, but not the monitor I was using.   That resulted in some blueish colours. I can scan documents using the native scanner software. In case of documents containing colours (logos, coloured fonts, whatever) the scans are a little blueish. White is not white, but blueish. This is particularly striking in cases of unfolded documents, i.e. documents that were folded initially, because they had to fit an envelop, or pocket, but unfolded whilst scanning. The 'folded edges' are much more distinct and are somewhat blueish. Regretfully the scanner software does not offer any settings to improve this. When scanning using Acrobat - which in fact is using the native scanner software - this is hardly (or not) visible. White is simply white I have no explanation as to why Acrobat is able to produce a better scan quality. (In the scanning software of my previous Epson printer, there was a setting to overcome this (bluish , but regretfully I could not discover such settings in the current software). When searching on "epson scan blue tint" it seems to be a regular problem, though most posts refer to scanning negatives. Hence my preference to use Acrobat, it comes much closer to white.     I believe the native scan software should produce correct scans, i.e. I hesitate to pay for 3rd party software   All above aside, blue tint seems, more or less, seems to be a more common problem. Taking photos with my smartphone, with all in default settings, they have a blue tint and should be corrected afterwards. Same goes with my Sony DSC RX100 camera. Later versions of this camera had more, as they say, 'Canon-like' colours, i.e. warmer.   -- As said, the matter is, to a large extend solved. Below after setting the sRGB colour profile, the differences are minor. Also, I don't know whether this has something to do with it, but the problem that I initially had, I could not reproduce it anymore.       --   again later when I go into Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Devices and Printers select my printer, then r-click "Printer Properties", select tab Colour Management and click on that button then select tab "Advanced" - under Device Profile it says System default (sRGB IEC61966-2.1 I wonder, should I not select the monitor profile there, showing up in the dropdown list. So, in that case, ALL is set to this HP Z27x Dreamcolor ICC ?   ... View more

Just for good order's sake/to make sure, these are 'my' steps. No doubt there are (relatively) expensive 3rd party tools around that can do the job better and also I am sure it is a 'piece of cake' for Acrobat developers to create an action that performs autocombine into 1 file, with subsequent OCR and save the file naming after the first page... (BTW vainly checked out Acrobat Actions Exchange)   Anyway ... Thank you for all your help!   ... View more

Thank you! Created some TIF files and indeed it worked out fine. Settings for TIFF files:     Launch Acrobat and drag the .tif files into Acrobat. (Note: when I drag the files onto the desktop icon, separate files are created, without OCR.)   Usually the scans are numbered like: name-01-date-time.ext, name-02-date-time.ext, etc. In my test #01 indeed shows up as first page. TIF files are automatically OCR'ed. That's nice. As for PNG: when doing the same with PNG, Acrobat will also ask whether I want to create 1 file, same as with TIF. One file is created (same as the context menu 'Combine Files in Acrobat')   I have two buttons in the toolbar. 1. performs OCR (click button and then click the following [ Recognize Text] button 2. plus a 'Save' button, bringing up the Save As... dialog.    Regretfully I have not found an action that does both in 1 'go' , i.e. performs OCR (without addl click on the Recognize Text button) AND then saves the file automatically to 'Untitled'.pdf   Thanks again. ... View more

Thanks. Correct me if I am wrong, I -think- it is not possible to run an action from the context menu(?) I do not use FineReader, but know it has that option (Convert and OCR) in the context menu.   ... View more

@Michael236456191fy8  Please do allow me to step in here. Fact is, I have/had the very same question. and stumbled over your post. Vainly spent hours on searching on Internet for a solution. @try67 THANK you very much for your solution. I wish I could add such action to the Explorer context menu, or have the context menu option 'Convert to PDF' do the very same thing, i.e. not just converting only, but also do an OCR. Regretfully it seems not be possible to run an action from some sort of command line (CLI), so it can't be added to the Explorer context menu, whereas the context menu 'Convert to Adobe PDF' doesn't do the OCR, regretfully so. Also each file is opened in a separate tab.   Nonetheless, thanks again! ... View more

LATER I think I have found a reasonable workaround. Open File - Select Print... (2) Printer: select Adobe PDF and (3) click on 'Advanced' (4) Settings (at the top): Acrobat Default (5) At "Output" - select "Separations" from the Color: drop down menu (6) Click on the printer buttons at Cyan, Magenta and Yellow to disable them (7) click [OK] (8) Print (9) Results   Attached PDF. Likely there are better solutions, but the results are 'acceptable'. I hesitate to upload all the images (too many/too large), hence the pdf.     ... View more

Thanks for the efforts. Please... let it rest... I spent the last 4-5 hours on trying to fix this. I don't remember what all I have been trying out. I give up. It is not worth spending time on.   @ls_rbls Thanks for the solution, I tried to figure out what I needed to select where. Searched and searched for the Print Production => Preflight => Edit Object No idea. There is an "Edit Object" entry under Print Production, nothing happens though when clicking on it. Have a nice to you all. Again, thank you both for all attempts. Truly appreciated! I'd suggest to let this rest.   p.s. a little off-topic  what is the use of "Output preview", or better, what is it used for? Background: the Output Preview gets the right results, but one can not use it to actually create new document, or save it to some settings and use them in advanced (printing) or something. ... View more

Thanks again. I went in there (Fixups), there are trillion options... Most options are greyed out, except custom fixups... Have attached 2 pages from the file. Maybe you can find a way?  But ... if it is too complicated and/or it takes too much time, forget it. Let's say it is 'it would be great'-thing. Otherwise - so be it. I was merely hoping to be able to print a new PDF or save to a new PDF like the Output Preview, but that seems imposssible. Thanks in advance for all the work!! (Again, drop it, if it is to complicated) ... View more

@amal - regretfully that did not work. @Luke Jennings3    Just for good order's sake, this is the idea. On the left you see pages being purple Then "Tools" > "Print Production" > "Output Preview", uncheck colours only leaving "Process Black" checked. Result is on the right. Now it looks fine, but as said, the next step is, how to save the document like that, or print as a new document, or how to achieve the same in Print > Advanced? Thanks. p.s. note that I am not familiar with things like 'preflight profile' - I add above and below screenshot, so as to avoid misunderstandings on what I am trying to achieve.     ... View more

Thanks for the feedback. I forgot to mention: I am using Acrobat Pro 2020. The file is 250 pages. Is there no way then to print the document to a new PDF using the above settings? That would mean that I get the right 'Output Preview' but would not be able to actually create a new PDF like output preview..? I went back and forth in the Print > Advanced dialog. I might use grey scale but don't get the white background as like above. Hence asking here.   ... View more

Ah, right... Super. Thanks a lot! That went fine indeed. Need some organizing (250 pages, scanned in 6-7 batches of roughly 30-40 pages or so, so they needed to be resorted in in parts).   Anyway, this are now 'sorted out' 🙂 Thanks again!   ... View more

Thanks. For the uservoice, one needs to create a new account? Or can the forum credentials be used? ... View more