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| Thread ID: 138522 | 2014-12-12 14:04:00 | Searchable PDF files | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1390069 | 2014-12-12 14:04:00 | I scanned with my Brothers 2000 and created many PDF files which I can not do a word search because when I scanned I scanned with just PDF and should of scanned with PDF Searchable PDF. How can I take all my PDF files and make them searchable? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1390070 | 2014-12-12 19:46:00 | You can't make them searchable, as they are images. You could run them through an OCR program, which would then spit out .doc versions - with 50-90% text accuracy depending on the size and quality of the font. Not worth it in my opinion; just scan them all again. | rossnixon (584) | ||
| 1390071 | 2014-12-12 19:47:00 | If they are scanned into PDF as an image then I don't think there's any way other than to rescan them with OCR software. This site has some suggestion www.makeuseof.com Otherwise you could search for free OCR software or try a site like this (note I've never used it and can't vouch for it) http://www.onlineocr.net/ |
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| 1390072 | 2014-12-12 21:27:00 | Or for a really cheap option, you could put them In Evernote and after a few days they'll be ocr'd for indexing. I'm Fortunate at work to have acrobat pro. Does a great job reducing the size and getting all the words on scanned PDF files. |
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