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I see that one area that concerns many people is how to use the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) abilities of Acrobat. Here's an overview, and I'll try to deal with other OCR issues very soon.

Acrobat can import scanned images (best in TIFF or PDF ) or interface with any TWAIN driver to scanners and digital cameras. This imports only pixel data, so a text recognition step is needed to create searchable text and possibly reduce file size. Acrobat calls this PDF OCR step paper capture.

    •     Accurately perform OCR, font, and page recognition.    
           
    •     Automatically create intra-document links, including tables of contents, cross references, and indexes.    
           
    •     Efficiently correct OCR text suspects with the new QuickFix tool.    
           
Bridge the gap between your paper and digital workflows. Adobe® Acrobat® Capture® 3.0 is a professional production tool that teams with your scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, advanced page and

As I said, if your image file is from a laser printed copy, and it's a decent scan, the PDF OCR accuracy is amazingly good. But it may have garbled some words, so if you want to get really fancy, go back to Document > Paper Capture and select "Find first OCR pdf suspect" or "Find Adobe Acrobat all PDF OCR suspects." This identifies characters that the OCR engine had problems with, and gives you a chance to correct the text. You can fix the spelling if it's important to you -- say for a proper name or term. That way you can be sure that the search software will find it. Otherwise, for a common word, I'd just save time and let it slide.

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Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, advanced page