I'm with the other complainats on this one. Now the question of liability raises its ugly head! No-one is happy.īernd Alheit – you may think you have correctly answered the issue, but you haven't really – please look again and show you expert credemtials by coming up with solutions that work! This seems to have occured through automatic 'text recognition' process forced on all pages when I made one intervention on another image on another page. Option 2: Copy Text from PDF & Paste Into a DOC in Mac OS X. In the last fews days a disappointed author has come back with complaint to the publisher that a small part of one image, which contained a scan of some hand-drawn lettering got printed as ugly gobble-de-guk. How to apply OCR to scanned PDFs on Mac PDFpen Download PDFpen or PDFpenPro if you don’t already have it (free trial available) After installing the app on your Mac, open the PDF document. Third, the situation that brings me to this forum is that I recently exprienced the following I often check and pre-flight files for a publisher - files supplied by other designers – before they go off to the printers. And it does not have a word limit, like Iris (50 pages). Second, having text recognition and saving occur automatically is a very sub-standard feature – I am a happy advocate for Adobe products usually, but Adobe have screwed up on this one. There is a 3rd option that is probably the best: ABBYY's Finereader Express for Mac. First, to Bernd Alheit: your response does not fit the issue, and you need to look again.įirst, in my version of Acrobat Pro DC (Mac 2015.006.30527), there is no 'Recognise text' button to turn on or off in the Edit PDF side-bar menu, regardless of what you and the user guide claim.

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