#MAC OS OCR ON PDF FILE HOW TO#

If you're an enterprise setup, this may be worth it for you. ** Autobahn DX workstation ** the cost of this product is so prohibitive, you probably could buy 6 copies of acrobat. Doesn't seem cost competitive for the small user. At best, there is a way to do it, but the documentation and programming is so horrible that you'll never find out.ĪBBYY FineReader Engine, ABBYY Recognition Server - These really are more enterprise solutions, you probably would be better off just getting acrobat to run over a folder and try and weed out pdfs that give you errors/crash the program than going through the hassle of trying to install evaluation software (assuming you are a simple end-user). It seems the only solutions I could find failed somewhere-renaming, not fully automated, etc.

#MAC OS OCR ON PDF FILE HOW TO#

If you can find out how to fully automate (no prompting) batch OCR of PDFs saving with the same name then please post here. But again, it dies horribly on certain types of PDFs so your mileage may vary.ĪBBYY FineReader (Batch/Scansnap), Omnipage – These have got to be some of the worst programmed pieces of software known to man. It will warn you at each error it runs into (though you can tell the software to not notify. The only problem seems to be 1) it wont skip files that have already been OCRed 2) try throwing a bunch of PDFs at it (some old) and watch it crash. Is there any way to batch OCR PDFs that haven't been already OCRed? This is, I think, the current state of things dealing with two issues: Batch OCR PDFs WindowsĪcrobat – This is the most straightfoward ocr engine that will batch OCR.

Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)?

Mac os ocr on pdf file