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October 10, 2023
Question

Unrotate pages rotated by failed text recognition

  • October 10, 2023
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I do OCR on scanned images:

  • Document Language: English (UK)

  • Output: Searchable Image

  • Downsample To: 300 dpi

This generally works fine. However, there are two pages in a document of 220 pages where Acrobat:

  1. fails to recognize text,
  2. it rotates the scan quite a lot.

For point number 1, it is forgiven: There is not much text, and that text is stylized. I don't even expect it to recognize that.

 

However, point number 2 is a big problem. How do I undo these rotations?

 

I tried to manually rotate with the edit tool. However, this can only be done in 2° or 1° increments, and it's not possible to rotate the image back to its original position.

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Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 10, 2023

2. Replace this pages with the pages of the original document.

fekleeAuthor
Inspiring
October 10, 2023

Thank you for the suggestion! I was thinking about that. However, there is another issue then:

How do I downsample these to 300 DPI with the exact same settings used for the other pages?

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 10, 2023

You can downsample the pages with the PDF Optimizer.