Comments on: “This Document Contains Renderable Text” Acrobat 8

By: Coke

Coke — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:58:21 +0000

Awesome!
This worked perfect for me. Now I was able to launch the OCR option and it recognized all the text from the image. Great tip.

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:52 +0000

I tried everything in this thread but still couldn’t get OCR to work. Has anyone found an easy solution to the problem?

Cheers,
Kris

By: desai

desai — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:06:51 +0000

fella, you sure saved me one hell of an effort trying to translate from de>en. this makes my life so very easy.
thanks, once again
kind regards
gaurang h. desai, india

By: Mike G

Mike G — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:02 +0000

Thx for the workaround, guys!
Adobe: it’s shameful a big-name company like you guys can’t fix this little bug for your legions of adoring fans….

>:-(

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:46:45 +0000

If the items causing an OCR problem are headers or footers, I have had success removing them by going to Document>Add Headers and Footers and clicking on [remove all]. Then OCR usually is possible.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:49:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip -worked a treat for me.

By: karen

karen — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:23:22 +0000

Alex — You mention at the end of your 3/22/09 comment using the TIFF files from the first step as a source for OCR… how do you get Acrobat’s batch sequence to use a TIFF file without it converting to PDF before OCR? Also, is this all one batch sequence, or do you have to split it out between printing to Image Writer/saving as TIFF as one, then OCRing the new TIFF as a second sequence? Your idea sounds like it worked for you. Thanks.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:29:40 +0000

It was possible to print pdf files with rendered text using Microsoft Office Document Image Writer to get a single .tiff image (instead of saving pdf file as tiff file resulting multiple tiff images). I chose output format TIFF-Monochrom Fax SuperFine (300DPI) as a preference for document image (to decrease chances of additional errors in consequent OCR procedure). I needed to OCR a number of pdf files with rendered text. I used Print Files [with Microsoft Office Document Image Writer] as the first step of a batch processing. In the following batch processing step, I used directly tiff files (from the first step) as a source of OCR (without converting them to pdf files before OCR). The final files were saved as OCRed pdf files.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:35:27 +0000

The entire reason I have Acrobat Pro is so that I can make legal documents searchable and highlight without printing them out. It’s ludicrous to suggest that someone go through a hundred+-page document and do anything page-by-page. I guess I need other software.

By: Etienne

Etienne — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:28:44 +0000

Simply print the file!

1-Use a PDF printer (adobe, PDF factory, or whatever software to make PDF file)
2-Print the file (make the PDF file)

The text will be recognized… (you can copy/paste it)