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Scanning and OCR with Acrobat
Acrobat can import scanned images (best in TIFF) or interface
with any TWAIN driver to scanners and digital cameras. This
imports only pixel data, so a text recognition step is needed
to create searchable text and possibly reduce file size. Acrobat
calls this OCR step paper capture.
- File > Import to bring in image data
- Tools > Capture to set up your capture preferences.
Normal will convert image data to text. Both
will keep the image visible and the text data hidden behind
it, so find-operations do take you to the right location
in the document.
- Find Next Suspect (Ctrl-H) to review the words
Acrobat thinks it may not have recognized correctly. You
will see a magnified version of the word/pixels in question.
In the actual document, the word Acrobat chose is highlighted.
Accept it or type over it.
- If good looks are really important, you may need to go
over most words/lines and edit their font properties with
the touchup-text tool, a very lengthy and tedious
process. Probably retyping in a word processor would be
faster.
   
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