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Started by Simon_Walters
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:23
Adobe Reader 9 - Search tool problems
Author: Simon_Walters
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:23
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:23
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Hey guys, I have recently downladed a whole load of pdf. documents which I need to analyse. They are a set of old news papers which have obviously been scanned in, and I need to search for specific information within them. The only thing is, whenever I use the Adobe search tool, the search engine always comes up with "no matches found"! This includes searching for real basic things like the headline of the newspaper or even the title itself! I really need to be able to search this documents as I have about 500 of them and going through them page by page would be like being at the dentist with no anathestic!!! Any thoughts you guys have on this really would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Happy New Year, Simon
Re: Adobe Reader 9 - Search tool problems
Author: graffiti
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:45
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:45
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In order for them to be searchable, you would need to run OCR on them and you can't do that with Reader. There are numerous tools to do OCR. Try Google.
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