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Topic: RE: Convert image PDF to image+text PDF? (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Accessibility, Msg: 133937
From: Duff_Johnson
Date: 6/6/2005 10:23 PM

First, this question is best asked on the "Paper-to-PDF" forum rather
than the "Accessibility" forum. However...

> I have several thousand image PDFs that I would like to
> convert to searchable image+text PDFs. Software which can
> handle batch processing would preferred.

Look at ABBYY FineReader - pretty good stuff.

> I've tried OmniPage
> 14, but it appears to create significantly larger files in
> some circumstances, and in others the quality of the image
> drops as it appears it image is re-processed...

There is doubtless an option in the software to leave the image alone...

> and the batch
> processing "save" functionality forces users to either
> hand-enter a file name or one can have numbered file names
> (which wipes out any current files names one might be using).

Ahh... OK, so you need the files processed as-is. I know that Adobe's
Acrobat Capture will do that, but FineReader wants to make "batches" and
eliminates your source file names.

There are other options... Readiris, for example, will do what you need,
I believe.

http://www.irislink.com/welcome/us.html
(This is NOT an endorsement)

Duff Johnson
Document Solutions, Inc.
http://www.document-solutions.com