OT: Help getting PDF to OCR or searchable form

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I don't see that happening cheaply and reliably.  Could be wrong, but I
shouldn't think so.

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On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 09:49:42PM -0400, Laura Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 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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