I am using Adobe Acrobat 8 with the OCR function to convert a periodical into a searchable electronic format. The problem is that there is no good built in tool to fix OCR mistakes- the find OCR suspects does not allow me to view the whole document as text (or text overlay) and edit words as needed. The OCR is not 100% and there are foreign words that I need to fix up. Is there any 3rd party software that can edit PDF text overlay? I also have OmniPage 15, but as far a as I know, you can't preserve the original image and have a text overlay like you can in Acrobat. If I use Acrobat, it allows me not to have to copy and paste the OCR text into a layout program and fix it there....all I need is a solution to fix mistakes in the text overlay.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advanace,
Daniel
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Thanks!
The Acrobat work-around is quite annoying, plus it doesn't allow you to fix text very easily, the screen flashes after you change 1 letter and when I add words/letters they don't space out correctly and it's an all around pain. So since I have to do this for thousands of pages, what do you recommend? I indeed do have OmniPage standard edition- is that why I don't see an option for PDF with text overlay? If I were to upgrade to 15 professional, does that have good editing capabilities for PDF text overlay? Is Abby's better? I also have Adobe Capture installed, but I don't quite know how to use it- would that be good?
Before thinking of this, I was using the standard feature of OmniPage and copying that text into Publisher - which required me to re-layout the whole publication- each page- very big hassle. So if you could get this working for me it would be a life-saver.
Thanks again,
Daniel
Sorry for the delay.
I know that you can do this with Abbyy's FineReader. I would think that OmniPage Pro does the same. You can download a 15 day eval version (actually of both FineReader and OmniPage Pro) and give it a try yourself.
I have first hand experience with FineReader, and I have played with OmniPage some time ago, I would go with FineReader (in my opinion the OCR engine in FineReader is better).
Capture may be overkill (and I don't know how to fix OCR errors in Capture).
Thanks so much! Abby FineReader 8.0 Professional works great once I select "Text Under Page Image" under the PDF save options. Now all I need to figure out is how to scan thousands of pages that are in booklet form, and have a program clean up the crease (instead of photoshopping each image)- I'm giving you the full 500 points!
Thansk again,
Daniel
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by: khkremerPosted on 2007-06-04 at 10:24:36ID: 19210297
I'm pretty sure you can do this with OmniPage as well - I know that Abbyy's FineReader does support a number of different PDF options, and one of them is to keep the original image, and add the text "behind" the image. Do you have the "Professional" version? If not, that may be the key.
But, I can tell you how to do this with just Acrobat. It's a bit cumbersome, but it can be done.
First select the TouchUp image tool and click on the page. This will select the page image, which you can now move out of the way (e.g. to the left edge of the page. Just make sure that a part of the image is still on the page so that you can grab it again and move it back.
For this to work, it would be beneficial if your page only contains one scanned image. Certain scan settings will create multiple images, and it will be very hard to work with those.
Then select the TouchUp Text tool and click anywhere on the now blank page. Do a Ctrl-A to select everything. You will now see where text is, but you still cannot see the text. Right-Click on any of the text segments and select "Properties..."
On the properties dialog select a stroke color of black. This will make your text visible, and editable.
Once you are done, change the text color back to "No color" and move your image back.