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How to OCR Documents in a PDF Portfolio

By Rick Borstein

PDF Portfolios are increasingly being used by law firms and legal departments across many disciplines.

As a result, my email inbox receives questions such as this one which I received today from the law department of large US city:

We are curious as to whether it's possible to OCR all documents within a PDF Portfolio?

Acrobat 9 allows you to run several operations across a PDF Portfolio including OCR.

What are PDF Portfolios? A PDF Portfolio may be thought of as a digital container. This container can include PDF documents, Office docs, image formats and a lot more. Once files are placed in a PDF Portfolio, they may be sorted and viewed various ways. For more info, watch this short video or go to the Portfolio section of my blog.

Ideally, you'll want to have Acrobat 9 Pro to OCR all the files in a PDF Portfolio, but you can use Acrobat 9 Standard, subject to the limitation I outline in the article.

Read on to learn more . . .

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on March 22, 2010 (boomark / email).