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FUBARinSFO
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April 19, 2012
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Deskew with OCR better than deskew when optimizing

  • April 19, 2012
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Hello:

I've found that the deskew performed with Optimize is inferior to the deskew when you OCR the scanned document.

Is there a way to invoke the deskew performed by OCR instead of the deskew in Optimize?  I've got some tabular timesheets, with no recognizable text.  OCRing them and saving the images and then reassembling the individual pages into a PDF is not a great solution.

Thanks in advance for your help.

-- Roy Zider

Adobe Acrobat 9 and 10

Windows XP SP3

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Sequoia_S
Sequoia_S
Participant
September 29, 2016

So reading this whole thread, it look like Adobe hasn't really addressed the problem

The best work-around I've found with Acrobat 10:

OCR the scanned PDF - save

Optimize the file, with quality set to high - save

If you want to get rid of the OCR text, "Sanitize" the file (in Acrobat X this is under Protection). - save

Optimize the file again - save.

With this I get the deskew from OCR, no text if I don't want text, small file size, and little to no loss in quality.

A real PITA, but it seems to work for me.

Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
October 5, 2016

We apologize for the issue you are facing.

Can you please share a sample document where you are facing this issue to help us resolve the issue ASAP.

You can use https://cloud.acrobat.com/send​ to sahre the document.

Thanks.

Sequoia_S
Sequoia_S
Participant
October 5, 2016

Actually, I can't - the documents that I generally encounter the situation in are confidential business documents and I don't have time to go looking for an innocuous document with the same properties. Maybe someone else can furnish a sample.

Allta Media
Community Expert
Allta MediaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 23, 2012

On Windows in Acrobat X, you can configure a preset (File > Create PDF from Scanner > Configure Presets) that invokes Deskewing but not OCR.

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FUBARinSFOAuthor
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April 23, 2012

LoriAUC:

Yes, that's what I've done.  The deskew result is different than with OCR. That is the point of this post -- you appear to need to do OCR to get a proper deskew.

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