[alligator]

I just purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap and now I have a lot of my household records scanned in as PDF files. I want to OCR a bunch of PDFs, not just one at a time. Does anyone know if there is a software program out there that will do this?


Adobe Acrobat will OCR one PDF at a time. *sigh*

[CatOne]

Doesn't the ScanSnap come with software that does that? You got the Mac version of the software, right?

Other things that might be able to help are DEVONthink Pro Office, or Yep.

[alligator]

No, the ScanSnap doesn't come with OCR software other than Adobe Acrobat 7. Acrobat 8 has batch processing capabilities, but Acrobat 7 does not, to my knowledge.

[badtz]

any new updates on this?

[CatOne]

DEVONthink Pro Office?

There was an article on setting up a hot folder in the Finder to auto-fire Acrobat and OCR a document when it dropped there. Problem is, there's a timing issue and it usually fires up Acrobat and then errors out because Acrobat is too slow to acknowledge the command. Personally I just do it a document at a time.

Though DEVONthink Pro Office might be worth a try. I used it but the PDFs I generated at last try were like 5x larger than the ones Acrobat Pro generated.

[badtz]

does DPTO and Acrobat attach the OCR text into the PDF so you can transport it outside of those respective programs?

[naphtali]

I've read that some of the ScanSnaps come with Readiris, and that it works great.

Readiris for Mac OS
Link to Demo: Download demo of Readiris Pro Mac

Haven't tried it myself though