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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
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a very lengthy and tedious process. Probably retyping
in a word processor would be faster.
   
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