Automated OCR and Advanced Search

Question

Hi, all. I'm trying to put together an automated process that takes PDF files, performs OCR on each one to create PDFs with searchable text, and then runs an advanced search on the resulting files.

It looks like Adobe's cloud-based APIs would work for this, but part of the goal is to do this locally, i.e. not an API call to an external web site to run the process. Preferably, this would be done with an actual Adobe SDK, not third party.

C# would be the preference, if possible.

All of my searches lead me back to the new web-based functionality. Is there an SDK available for offline processing that can handle this?

Thanks!

BarlaeDC · Answer

Hi,

I don't think this is possible without writitng your own using the Acrobat SDK, but you can look for your self here - https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/acrobatsdk/gettingstarted.html

I don't think the OCR is exposed through the SDK but I may be mistaken.

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