How to recognize text in XI Pro when files returns "renderable text" error.

Question

This same file will recognize text & provide searchable document in Adobe 9.
I saw workaround to convert each page to TIFF, do OCR on each page, convert each back to pdf & combine. That is ridiculous. Will there be a new version of XI Pro that will work correctly for OCR?

Answer 1

Varinder.Saini wrote:
David,
That is how it is. If you run Searchable Image or Searchable Image (Exact), Acrobat will throw error only for pages that contains renderable text. It also gives an option to ignore these error for any further pages containing renderable text.
If you check this option it will run OCR for rest of the pages and won't show the error again for that PDF.
This option is not available when OCR'ing using Adobe ClearScan -- ClearScan being the ONLY reason anyway why I own Acrobat Pro AT ALL -- for it's otherwise ridiculous slowness compared to its competitors. Sorry having to tell you that, from the point of view of having worked in a paperless law office for 15 years, therein 4-9 hrs a day with PDF documents usually in the 600 to 1.800 page range.
CtDave wrote:
Precluding the entry of anything 'renderable' assures OCR will be accomplished for each page.
David Peters wrote:
Just stop bullshitting users about "you better follow well defined protocols" niminy-piminy-finicky.
There is zillions of cases where one does not have ANY control neither access to the (external) creation of one's PDF files, even if people like you seem to be unable to imagine, and therefore repeat the same pointless sermon over and over that does not add ANYTHING to the case.
The solution to this problem by the way is not a question of more (lost) decades of rocket science Adobe bloatware engineering, but simply:
If there is "Renderable Text" somewhere on some fuⅽʞing page:
then just SKIP IT and continue OCR with the next fuⅽʞing bitmap
gosh darn it.
Not that I would hope that any of this would change anything with the course of the megaton tanker Adobe which I usually avoid like the plague -- with the only two exceptions of ClearScan and of course, Acrobat 7 Pro, the last Acrobat version that was not only fairly usable but actually is a pretty amazing piece of software.