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"Use Acrobat to Create Searchable PDFs of All Your Documents"

This post was written by Sam Glover: "Performing OCR on every file as you go--even if you take advantage of the Scan Snap's first-page OCR feature--makes scanning go really slowly. Even on my super-fast desktop computer, it triples or quadruples my average scanning time. Fortunately, you can use Acrobat to do the time-consuming scanning while you aren't at your computer with Acrobat's batch-OCR feature.

In Acrobat 9 Standard, which is what I am using, this feature is not obvious. In Acrobat 10, I'm told it will be much more powerful and easy to use. For now, here's how to get Acrobat to OCR a whole directory:..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 13 September 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).