One cool feature in acrobat 9 is the ability to convert an image containing text into real text, using optical character recognition (ocr). it isn't perfect, as donna l. baker notes, but acrobat can save you a significant number of keystrokes that you would otherwise spend in retyping content.. Acrobat identifies suspected text errors and displays the image and text side by side in the secondary toolbar. (all suspect words on the page are enclosed in boxes.) click the highlighted object or box in the document, and then correct it in the recognized as box in the secondary toolbar.. Acrobat can recognize text in any pdf or image file in dozens of languages. all you have to do is open the scanned document or image that you'd like to ocr, then click the blue tools button in the top right of the toolbar..
Running adobe acrobat 9 pro. i'm working with electronically filed court documents. i regularly use the ocr tool (document -> ocr text recognition -> recognize text using ocr...) on these court documents.. At the end of this tutorial titled scanning and ocr: beyond the basics with acrobat 9, there is a suggestion for adding a new text layer to a scanned pdf if you're interested. it's applicable to both acrobat pro. 9 and x.. In this tutorial, learn how to ocr pdf by using the recognize text panel in acrobat x to fix up text in your pdf file. learn how to use the recognize text panel in acrobat x to make scanned text searchable in your pdf file and also fix up any recognition errors as well..
