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_John_L__Douglas_
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October 7, 2008
Question

Acrobat 9 crashes on OCR

  • October 7, 2008
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I've been trying to convert a batch of large PDF files to PDF searchable files by using the OCR of Acrobat. In the middle of a batch, a large (1000+ page) document crashes acrobat. I have narrowed it down to this image:

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2418/badke2.png
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When I convert it to PDF (File->Create PDF->From Single File) and then use Acrobat to "Document->OCR Text Recognize->Recognize Text using OCR", Acrobat always crashes.

Is this true for anyone else that could try it?

It kills my batch processing and is making this large conversion quite painful. Is there a way around it?
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_Whitt_Wilkins_
Participant
November 6, 2008
My boss and I do document digitizing and we are having the same problem. Not every file crashes, only random larger files. I was wondering if anyone else had any insight on fixing this.

Thanks.
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_Doug_Sims_
Participant
November 6, 2008
Does anyone have information on the release of 9.1 or the fix to this issue?

Thanks
A
Anonymous
October 23, 2008
when is the new adobe 9.1 coming out then?
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_Olga_Satchouk_
Participant
October 20, 2008
Yes, it looks like the same problem on all pages caused crash in Acrobat 9.0. All pages came out just fine after OCR with 9.1.

Thanks again for your help.
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_John_L__Douglas_Author
Participant
October 16, 2008
Thank you. I hope it is released soon as I have 6 more cases where it crashes during OCR. Perhaps they are all related to this common cause that you have already fixed.

Here are the current 8 pages that crash Acrobat 9 during OCR in a single PDF if you can test:

http://rapidshare.com/files/154734045/CrashPages.pdf.html
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_Olga_Satchouk_
Participant
October 16, 2008
I was able to reproduce crash in both cases. Fix will be available in the next dot release of Acrobat - 9.1.
Thanks for your help!

Olga Satchouk,
Acrobat QE
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_John_L__Douglas_Author
Participant
October 15, 2008
I have sent the email with the attachment.
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_Olga_Satchouk_
Participant
October 14, 2008
I have problem to download first file that caused crash :
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2418/badke2.png

Could you, please send it to me as attachment to osatchou@adobe.com.

Thanks,
Olga
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_Mark_Smartt_
Participant
October 13, 2008
Not sure this is right place for this question, but...
Is there a "one-step" way to highlight all the occurences of a particular word in an OCR'd pdf? I currently find the 1st occurrence and highlight it, then find the next occurrence and highlight it, then find the next occurrence and highlight it, and so on...but surely there is an automated way to do this....
MichaelKazlow
MichaelKazlow
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October 13, 2008
Mark,

This thread relates to crashes with OCR. Your post does not. Please
start your own thread. Don't hijack unrelated threads.

Mike
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_John_L__Douglas_Author
Participant
October 9, 2008
Every other page in these documents are the same dpi so I don't think that is the issue.

Here is a two page PDF with a different page that crashes Acrobat 9:

http://rapidshare.com/files/152486163/TwoPages.pdf.html

Acrobat 9 crashes when I try to OCR page 2, but works well on page 1. They are both the same DPI as far as I can tell.

It would be nice if someone with AA9 could confirm this.
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