Text Recognition Introduction

Key Points

Introduction to OCR
  • OCR is used to recognize text in PDFs and images

  • PDFs come in many formats

  • Not all PDFs have text recognition

  • Enhacning a PDF can improve OCR results

OCR with Adobe Acrobat
  • How to enhance and OCR documents.

  • How to manually correct OCR mistakes.

  • How to set-up a workflow using Action Wizard.

OCR with ABBYY FineReader
  • ABBYY can enhance documents to improve OCR quality.

  • ABBY works with PDFs or any image format.

ABBYY OCR Editor
  • ABBYY can OCR data tables and non-English texts

  • We can train ABBYY to recognize new, unique characters