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Is there a better way to correct errors in Adobe Acrobat's OCR results?

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Mar 15, 20262501 views
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I'm using OCR Text Recognition integrated into Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 to produce an (invisible) searchable text overlay for text pages I have scanned. This is very neat for copying some phrases to the clipboard or for text searching. In some cases, Adobe does a rather poor job and in some cases it jus…

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Recent versions of Acrobat Pro have substantially improved the workflow. With Acrobat Pro XI (and I believe X), you first do the text recognition, and can then go through suspect errors by clicking Tools->Text Recognition->Find First Suspect or Find…

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