Applescript auto-OCR with Acrobat 9

on adding folder items to
     tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro" to activate end
     tell application "System Events" to tell process "Acrobat"
          click the menu item "Recognize Text in Multiple Files Using OCR..." of menu 1 of menu item "OCR Text Recognition" of the menu "Document" of menu bar 1
          -- Here I need help. The following commands won't work.
          -- click button "Add Folders..." of window "Paper Capture Multiple Files" isn't working.
          -- After that I have no idea how to select a folder
          click button "Choose" of window "All supported files under selected folder and subfolders will be added"
          click button "OK" of window "Paper Capture Multiple Files"
          click button "OK" of window "Output Options"
          click button "OK" of window "Recognize Text - Settings"
     end tell
end adding folder items to

Whenever I open a new pdf in 9.0 pro the program seems to scan it to create an
OCR version. It is annoying when time is short - I usually hit <Cancel> but
how can I permanently turn this feature off, or can I?
Frank

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Iwant to write a script (eg applescript) that can be used as a droplet or has a menu to open a folder of scanned pdf-files to conduct OCR. And - I want to use Acrobat XI (as this is my version), German verison.
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Acrobat can assemble a PDF file from scanned pages and OCR it. I'll just scan in this four page doc and send it out as PDF. Simple, right?
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Hi,
Bernd's been across the mountain and seen the bear; so, you can bank on what he posted.
But, just because, I'll second his "no".
Formatted Text and Graphics (Acrobat 7, 8) and ClearScan (Acrobat 9, X) effectively replace the image of textual characters.
If a character is not recognized as 'something' a bit map is of the thing is left behind.
Now, while Acrobat or other OCR engines (Abbey FineReader, AdLib, Adobe Capture, etc.) are really rather impressive no OCR engine has 100% accuracy 100% of the time. Other variables come into play (scan lamp age/brightness, platen cleanliness, scanner mechanicals cleanliness, calibration of scanner, hard copy 'quality' (characters' darkness density, contrast between characters and background, presence of lack thereof of boxed in text, text in or adjacent to line arcs/circles, etc.).
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Be well...

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ttp://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/scanners/topic2
035.html
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http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/scanners/topic
2036.html
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>
>I know that if I print all 170 pages onto paper, I will be able to scan them into Acrobat and simultaneously ocr them.
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