OT: Help getting PDF to OCR or searchable form

[Laura Brody]

Additional information....

I talked to the user and got some history...

The user scanned in legal documents. Saved the images as pages in a PDF.
That is why I can't search on keywords for most of the files. A few files
were typed up and then exported as PDF. most are images of the pages. That
means that OCR has to be part of the solution.

I discovered that Adobe Acobat Reader has a setting to search all PDFs in a
directory for keywords. The problem is that these files don't contain text.
They contain images of text. Adobe can't search images and find keywords.

Laura Brody

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:03 PM Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am hoping that one of you has solved this problem before.....
>
> I have over a thousand pages of text in a dozen or so PDF files. Most
> files are "read-only" and I can not do Ctrl-F to search for keywords. I
> would like to be able to OCR the files and put everything into one file
> that is searchable. Or is there a utility that will search all of the PDFs
> in a directory for a keyword?
>
> Suggestions anyone?
>
> Laura Brody
>
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