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RimexSupplyLtd
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June 22, 2017
Question

Can Acrobat Pro DC create an automated workflow to scan, ocr and pdf/a 1000's of business documents

  • June 22, 2017
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Here's what we have:

  1. An Epson DS-860 scanner (yes, the scanner interface can be hidden in Acrobat)
  2. A Windows 10 PC
  3. Acrobat Pro DC on the PC
  4. 1000's of business documents spanning about 7 years in file boxes that we want to digitize (things like supplier invoices, customer invoices, purchase orders etc)

We want to automate the process/workflow to do the following via some sort of customizable presets

  • batch scan the documents to pdf/a format (i.e. ocr)
  • create a separate file for each document
  • auto name and number each scanned pdf/a file per a preset naming convention (e.g. A-nnnnn, B-nnnnn, Ford-nnnnn)
  • Ideally save the files in designated folders

In testing, Acrobat Pro DC does a great job of scanning and ocr, but I don't see a way to automate a workflow as per above into batches.

Can Acrobat Pro DC do ALL of this, or do we need another application?

Thanks for any insight on this.

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Inspiring
June 22, 2017

I would look at a much more robust approach like a commercial service and server and device combination to perform high speed scanning.