Acrobat 7’s nifty optical character recognition
(aka Call off the search, I found Spock)
January 16th, 2007
The other day I discovered that Acrobat 7 Pro has built-in OCR (optical character recognition). So I decided to run some scanned pages of text through to see how well it works.
Well, it actually does work, and with surprising accuracy, though the resulting document was nearly double the file size of the original. It's really cool though, because Acrobat layers the OCR'd text invisibly over the image, making ...
