(You may want to choose three different pages - text only, line drawing or graphics heavy, and photographic image heavy - to experiment around with.).
#Adobe acrobat pro 9 ocr for mac manual
Although this trick does not require a lot of tedious manual labor, it does take up a lot of computer time and processing power.This trick can only be done on Windows® computers, but the resulting file can then be used anywhere.
However, as this same program is required to perform OCR from within Acrobat®, and anyone reading this is doing so because they normally would have been able to do the OCR but can't for some some specific document(s), I assume the reader has access to this "Pro" version of Adobe® Acrobat® henceforth to be referred to simply as "Acrobat®." I use Acrobat 9 Pro®, but these procedures will likely work on any relatively recent version of the product.
#Adobe acrobat pro 9 ocr for mac pdf
PDF file to the "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" printer driver (which you will need to install). Using this technique, it is possible to obtain a searchable and text-select-able document while preserving the original image of the scanned document, if desired. I just think this is a workable solution which is much better than the "save to TIFF and rebuild from there" solution offered by Adobe®. That would be for Adobe® to fix their software. Notice, I am not saying it is "The" solution. For all those people out there - students, academics, archivists, and eBooks readers - who have been stymied by Adobe® Acrobat's® stubborn refusal to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on a document, claiming: "Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because: This page contains renderable text." - I believe I have found a workable solution.