Skip to main content
A
Anonymous
January 10, 2020
Question

Unreadable acrobat output, looks corrupted.

  • January 10, 2020
  • 2 replies
  • 1041 views

Hi,  Acrobat is producing pdf files that will load, but un-readable.  You can make out some works and it has a heavy purple color all thru it.  I'm using XI desktop.  Some pdfs are good, and many bad like this.  I can output the same .tif thru Microsoft pdf printer driver and I get a good image.  The first image is a screenshot of the bad output.  

 

What is going on here and how do I fix it?

Thanks Stanley

 

 

 

This topic has been closed for replies.

2 replies

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 10, 2020

Can you share a sample file?

A
Anonymous
January 10, 2020

Sure, they are at:

https://stanlyn.com/public/purpletest1.tif 

https://stanlyn.com/public/purpletest2.tif

 

while the Acrobat output files are at:

https://stanlyn.com/public/purpletest1.pdf

https://stanlyn.com/public/purpletest2.pdf

 

Thanks, Stanley

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 12, 2020

Acrobat DC doesn't support this TIFF format.

A
Anonymous
January 10, 2020

How would be the easiest and best way to traverse the os looking for these purple files so they can be fixed?  I have to traverse about a thousand folders containing 4 million pdf files.  I olny need to identify the purple files...

 

Then, once identified, I can easily write the pdf file urls into a database, then operate on each one individually.  Is there any Adobe command line tools or other 3rd party tools that I can run against each of the identified files that will do the mutiple steps (deskew, ocr, and etc) as I iterate the database containing the bad file links? 

 

Thanks,

Stanley

 

A
Anonymous
January 10, 2020

Hi again,

The tools I need to identify and fix the bad pdf files needs to be ActiveX or ComInterop as my other tooling only supports them, and I don't have a year to get up to productive speed using .Net or C#, or ??

 

In the past, I have used gdPicture and find that Adobe's ocr engine is superior to gdPicture's Teserrick engine, therfore I'd rather stay with Acrobat. 

 

Whose engine does Adobe use, just in case there are no Adobe tools for us to use?

 

Thanks,

Stanley

 

 

A
Anonymous
January 10, 2020

And here is a snapshot that shows some are good and some are bad (purple)

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices