Automatically OCR documents within a folder

Question

I am hoping to make our office paperless and in the process I need to scan bunch of files on regular basis (invoices, checks, etc). I know within Adobe Acrobat user interface I can manually enhance scans and choose multiple files or a folder. However, I am hoping to automate this process so that all scanned documents go in one folder and I use a utility to monitor that folder and as soon as new files arrive, it converts them into searchable pdfs and moves them to an archive folder.

I wonder if someone knows of a way to achieve this through Adobe Acrobat or be able to run this option from within a batch file?

Lovekesh Garg · Answer

Hi Farhan,You can run OCR even while scanning itself. There is an option of Recognize Text. So whenever you scan a document it will run OCR also.Otherwise you can create an action as per your requirement.Go to Tools> Action Wizard> New Action > Add Recognize Text option and Save Set the input folder where you want to Run OCR, OCR settings and Output Save settings and save this action.Refer Adobe Acrobat DC Action Wizard for more information.Hope it will resolve your problem.Thanks.

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