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April 23, 2024
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Acrobat cannot run OCR due to renderable text on page

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A search to solve the above and create a seachable document where the text is recognized. Goal is to change the text as the document is written in an old typewriter font, making it hard to read.

 

One of the solutions found in the forum is: Convert the PDF to TIFF file format and then back to PDF which creates INDIVIDUAL tiff pages. I've got 150 pages so the question is how to create the TIFF files so that they are ONE book with 150 pages, not 150 individual TIFF pages so I'm not OCR and recognizing the text in 150 individual pages? \

 

Larry

Mac OS Sonoma,

Acrobat 2024

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Abambo
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April 25, 2024
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A search to solve the above and create a seachable document where the text is recognized. Goal is to change the text as the document is written in an old typewriter font, making it hard to read.


By @Lrrryo

Do you want to recognize old scanned pages into recognizable text? If they are challenging to read, they may also be difficult to recognize. The human eye is indeed better than the machine with text recognition.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
try67
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April 23, 2024

After exporting the pages as TIFF images go to Create - Combine Files into a Single PDF, and select all of these files. It will convert them to PDFs and merge them as a single file. Then you could run OCR on that file.

gary_sc
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April 23, 2024

Actually, it's better than that! If you run a jpg, png, or any other kind of file AFTER it's converted to a PDF, you must run OCR. However, if you run TIF files through, it will first ask you if you want these as one file or separate. Click on one file, and it will combine it into a PDF AND run the OCR without any intervention on your part.

LrrryoAuthor
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April 25, 2024

Gary, that would be great, but where do I get the option to select, combining it into one file? Thx