How to scan text as ocr

i want to scan text and then open it in PDF format to edit...without buying Acrobat

If you want to edit the text DON'T scan to PDF, terrible idea.
Scan to Word, make the edits, convert to PDF.

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How to scan a text into MS Word ?

Hi Lindagia,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that you are trying to scan a document into Word from your HP Photosmart c6280, and I am happy to help!
Please see this How to Scan guide. How to Scan: Windows 7. Select How to scan with HP Software, then How to scan as editable text (OCR).
Hope this guide helps you, and have a great day!
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How do I scan to text using OCR on the Envy 5660?

Hello,
Prior to ordering an HP Envy 5660 printer, I confirmed that OCR text recognition is expressly included in the Printer Specifications for the HP ENVY 5640, 5660, 7640, and Officejet 5740 and 8040 e-All-in-One Printer Series document here.
As you can see, under Scanning Specifications, which apply to all models listed in the above document’s title, it says: "Scan to text: Integrated OCR software automatically converts scanned text to editable text."
I have now received and set up the HP Envy 5660 printer that I ordered. It is connected via USB to a MacBook Pro running Mavericks (OS X 10.9.5). After clicking the Download HP Software link on the accompanying CD, I was automatically connected to HP's Product Setup area, from where I obtained the latest driver package for my operating system, "HP-ENVY-5660-series_v12.39.0.dmg." Using the "Custom Install" option, I installed “Essential Software,” “HP Scan,” and “Product Help."
The print and scan functions on my HP Envy 5660 are working, but regardless of whether I scan a page of text via the printer’s control panel, or the installed “HP Scan” application, or the installed “Image Capture” application, I can find no evidence of integrated OCR software, and no option to convert scanned text to editable text.
Please tell me where to locate the specified OCR software, and how to enable its operation on the Envy 5660.
Thank you.

Greetings, @TeaMasterLing , welcome to the community!
I read through your post about how you are attempting to use OCR software that was to be included with your printer software installation. I was unable to recreate this situation here on my lab computer to see what you are seeing on your end.
For that reason, I cannot provide you with a possible solution and would suggest calling in to phone support, as they can log on to your computer if need be to see how the issue could be resolved to have the OCR software working for you.
Here is HP's contact info:
If you are calling within North America, the number is 1-800-474-6836 and if you are calling outside of the US/Canada: click here.
I hope you soon have a solution!
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How can users who have Acrobat Reader only save scanned pdf files so that the text on them is searchable using ctrl-F? I just use the recognize text with ocr feature in the full version of Acrobat and this seem to do the trick. Reader doesn't work!

Our users have scanned pdf files they want to be able to search using ctrl-f. I got them to be searchable by doing a recognize text using ocr with Acrobat Professional vesion 8. They want to know if they can make the files searchable with Acrobat Reader only or if they need the full Acrobat Professional software to make the files searchable.
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To clarify a bit they need to have Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Reader. Reader has not been associated with the Acrobat name for 3 or more versions. The process you are asking about is a creation process - the purpose of Acrobat - and NOT a reading feature.

HT1338 Is there a HP Photosmart printer driver update 12.16.1 that supports OS 10.7.5 that will allow me to scan documents with OCR? If so where/how do I download or get it? Thanks

Sorry, I meant to say Apple printer driver update 2.16.1 for OS 10.7.5. Is there a HP Photosmart printer driver update 2.16.1 that supports OS 10.7.5 that will allow me to scan documents with OCR? If so where/how do I download or get it? Thanks
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Hi pmaragoni,
I understand that you are looking for an updated driver for your HP Photosmart printer. Here is a link to the updated drivers from Apple for HP printers.
LINK: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907
I hope this helps,
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How to scan a hard copy to pdf that I can convert to word for editing?

I've got a HP deskjet 3050A and my operating system is Windows 7, how to scan a hard copy to pdf that I can convert to word for editing?
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Hi,
The software provided for your device does not include OCR functionality
You may use any 3rd part OCR solution to scan as editable text.
If you have Microsoft Office suite there is a good chance the office suite provide this kind of capabilities:
Office 2007 or 2010:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14595/ocr-anything-with-onenote-2007-and-2010/
Office 2003:
http://agsci.psu.edu/it/how-to/perform-ocr-with-microsoft-office-2003-document-imaging
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How to scan documents with HP Officejet 5610 and iMac 21.5 ?

Hello,
Please can someone tell me how to scan documents with a HP Officejet 5610 all-in-one printer and an iMac 21.5 , OS X Yosemite version 10.10.1 ?
Thanks a lot.

Hi,
Scanning can be done on Yosemite as listed in the following document:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c04467713&tmp_task=useCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=e...
A such will allow scanning as a PDF file as example.
If by "Scanning a Document" you may refer to OCR scanning (e.g. scanning a text to a Word file which can be edited), a such is not supported by the provided solution and will require a 3rd party software which offer OCR capabilities. Vuescan re as example support a such:
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/hp_officejet_5600.html
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How to change text in PDF doc. which is a musical score

Hello,
I'm new here, so please excuse me if I do or say something I shouldn't.
I need to change the words in a musical score because the font is too small. OCR recognition doesn"t work because there are illustrations that are different from images or text... Is there a way to get in there and make the changes I need to do?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply, but I have Adobe Reader 9 Pro. Will it still not
work ?
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A way to undo Formatted Text & Graphics OCR from Acrobat 7?

Over the course of a few months, my company received a large number of PDF files for a project for which the internal policy was that every file should be text searchable. Unfortunately, we did not save the native files in any sort of convenient way, having at that time not realized that failing to do so was a very bad idea. We ran OCR on every one of the files that we received, which total approximately 4,000. At the time that we received the majority of these files, my company was still using Acrobat 7; we've since upgraded to version 8.
Recently we discovered that there were discrepancies between our electronic copies and the hard copy printouts from which our electronic copies had been generated: in the electronic copies, uppercase F had changed to P, S had changed to 8, etc. We eventually worked out that it must have been that at some point a computer was mistakenly set to run OCR using the Formatted Text & Graphics setting, as opposed to either Searchable Image or Searchable Image (Exact). This was absolutely not want we wanted, as for our purposes using a type of OCR that causes the original images to change essentially renders the files useless. My questions, then, are the following:
1) As I asked in the title, is there any way of undoing Formatted Text & Graphics OCR that was performed in Acrobat 7?
2) Is there a way of identifying files that have had Formatted Tex & Graphics OCR performed on them (something stored in the metadata)?
Rebuilding these files from scratch is going to require a gargantuan effort, so any help would be much appreciated.

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.).
All of that is for semantic content that is "textual". Semantic content that is not textual (but, coincidently may contain text) provides little to no useful OCR output (e.g., graphs, drawings, etc.). Validate this by performing OCR on such a PDF then Export to a plain text file. Print this file out and compare that to the source paper or the scanned image.
There is no metadata info that identifies the OCR mode used.
Perhaps something buried in the bowls of PDF page description content; if so, not intrinsically easy to obtain.
My suggestion (fwiw) - move forward with re-scan.
A server product would help to move it along but a high speed scanner hooked to a local machine (with ample resources) and Acrobat Pro 8 or 9 get it done. With Acrobat 8 or 9 use Search Image (Exact). In Preferences check the category Create PDF or TIFF to assure it is what you desire. Check Acrobat's scan presets to assure you have what you want vis-a-vis Compression and Filtering. Do avoid "Automatic".
Be well...

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Envy 4500 won't scan text to produce a searchable PDF file

I used to have a Photosmart 4400 C printer that would let me scan to produce searchable PDF files, i.e. I could select letters or words using a text selection tool in my PDF reader. Today I Just purchased a ENVY 4500 e- All-in-One-Series. It will only scan text to give me a graphic PDF file that is not searchable. I updated to the latest driver EN4500_198.exe but that doesn't help. Does anyone have a solution?

Hi, No, the Envy 4500 does not have any OCR software by default, you have to pay for that software and believe this or not, the software is more expensive than the printer itself. You can buy the software or you can try to use few free software around: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-ocr-software.htm Regards,

Page 8, article 3 - Flex Cookbook scanning text

You have three images describing how readers scan the text of
a page looking for relevant/interesting information,
The first picture is annotated with the full text of your
comments:-
Users rarely read every word on application screens. Instead,
they unconsciously use the screen’s visual hierarchy to
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Need help in regard to above - to easily convert scaneed file on imac.
This seem not to be working at times.Need step by step suggestion.
would appreciate some help

Please see our Getting Started Guide: http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2412
By default when you convert a document, the OCR (optical character recognition) engine is enabled. This is the function that makes scanned text editable.

Grabbled text after OCR

I'm scanning old law books from a Minolta PS-7000 using IrfanView software, then bringing them up on Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard for PDF files. I then did a text recognition, OCR and some of the pages are OK, but then I come across other pages that have text that is all grabbled with symbols and numbers instead of letters. I have a HP Pavilion 732 computer, with Windows XP. Can someone please give some direction on this problem? I have a lot of old statute books to scan.
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It's part of the process. I recommend you check out the help pages
about OCR in Acrobat, there's more to it than you might imagine (or
than most people want).
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Recogize text using OCR not available

Hi,
I have Acrobat Pro 8. I have several scanned fileds that I'm trying ot OCR. The option under Documents (recognize text using OCR) is not listed. Only Find the first OCR suspect and Find all.
Any ideas?
Please advise. This is a priority project and OCR would save a lot of time and money.
thx
Linda

I was having the same issue with Acrobat 9. The only way we could get it working was to reinstall to version 9.4. Something with the update to 9.5 or 9.51 removed that option, which is a very important option. As 9.5 had an important security patch, I hope this is fixed soon.

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