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MRAChair
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October 27, 2013
Question

I have a large number of documents dating back from the 1940's that I need to preserve for research,

  • October 27, 2013
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I am scanning the documents into PDF format and then uploading them to Adobe Acrobat for conversion in to a searchable format e.g. Word of RTF but when I download them there are literally hundreds of mistakes, waht can I do to create better searchabled copies please

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    Adobe Employee
    H_Spector
    Adobe Employee
    October 30, 2013

    HI,

    When you scan your documents please scan with higher resolution so that OCR can recgonize those scanned images better.  Poor scanned images are very hard for OCR to recognize them as characters.

    Thank you.

    Hisami

    M
    MRAChairAuthor
    Participant
    October 31, 2013

    Dear Hisami,

    I have scanned in at the highest resolution possible 600 dpi and the result is still very poor, I have attached both the scanned document and the converted copy.

    What else can I do, are there any options that I can select?

    Thank you,

    Brian

    Brian Canfer

    Chairman and Archivist RAF Mountain Rescue Association

    High Mead

    Old Roman Rd

    Shrewsbury

    SY3 9AH

    Tel 01743 352173 or 07929088161

    <http://www.rafmountainrescue.com/> www.rafmountainrescue.com

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    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    November 2, 2013

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