Chapter 17. Scanning and OCR Conversion
Welcome to the world of one-stop scanning and text recognition. Anyone who scanned documents in earlier versions of Acrobat will appreciate the one-step operation for scanning a text document and performing text recognition via Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine and many new enhancements to Acrobat Scan. The one-stop scanning introduced in Acrobat 8 has been improved in Acrobat 9 through the implementation of a new scanning technology called ClearScan, the addition of presets that support custom settings you can configure for various source materials, creating multiple files from scanned documents, adding multiple scanned documents to a PDF Portfolio, and much more with the new Acrobat Scan features in Acrobat 9.
When performing a scan in Acrobat, you are not limited to scanning documents for text conversions. Acrobat enables you to scan photos and images that might have some other uses. Therefore, this chapter covers all the aspects of scanning from within Acrobat using the Scan to PDF command and the Text Recognition commands.
Setting Up the Scanning Work Environment
For scanning and text recognition tasks, you need access to the TouchUp Text tool. First, reset the tools from a context menu opened from the Toolbar Well and choose Tools
During text recognition, you may want to create several views that enable you to zoom in to ...
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