OCR @ background for multiple PDF files

Question

Dear Friends,I have multiple PDF files contains images / tiff files. one PDF file can have multiple pages. I wanted to do OCR of each PDF file. Manually I need to do one by one.I wanted solution to perform this task at background may be one tool of JOB which can be executed to do OCR for all files and save the result files in specific folder. This background job will be executed on daily basis.can it be feasible with Adobe OCR tool? OR suggest any alternative by using Adobe OCR.Do we have any library which can be integrated with .Net application? so that we can build the tool which can be executed at background.Thank You,Jayraj

Lovekesh Garg · Accepted Answer

Yes, you can run OCR on a set of files and save them in any folder with specified names. Follow these steps to perform this operation:

If no file is Opened in Acrobat:

1. Launch Acrobat and Go to Tools> Enhance Scans

2. There is a link "Or recognize text on multiple files"

3. On "Recognize Text" dialog, click on Add files option and select all the files, you want to run OCR on.

4. Click Ok. Now a dialog will come where you can specify the Output settings(Folder path and Prefix/Suffix for filename)

5. On "Recognize Text - General settings" window specify OCR output style and language. (Default Value is Searchable Image Exact).

If any file is opened in Acrobat, Step 2 will be changed: In Acrobat toolbar select Recognize Text> In Multiple files

Hope it will resolve your issue. Please let us know if anything else is required.

Thanks.

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