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josephinde
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April 4, 2016
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Does iFilter see content of glass-scanned PDFs?

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Does iFilter see content of glass-scanned PDFs? I need to search for a character string in a directory containing 25,000+ PDFs that are both scanned and generated by CAD drawing programs. Thanks!

Message was edited by: Joseph Norton to correct a typo 4-4-16 11:45 EDST.

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

‌iFilter uses only the available text in the file.

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Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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April 5, 2016

What scanning options do you use?

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josephindeAuthor
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April 5, 2016

Many of the newer files were "generated/exported/Save As" to PDF from AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks and MS Office applications. Many of the older files were scanned at 300x300 DPI to 'PDF Compact' (for file size conservation) from a copier/printer/scanner so they are little more than static images. Most of these could be run the OCR feature from Acrobat Pro but, at only one at a time for that many files, we would be here for two forevers. (Unless iFilter can batch this process?). Thanks.

Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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April 5, 2016

‌iFilter uses only the available text in the file.

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