OCR Renderable Text and Print to PDF Problems
I have Adobe Acrobat version 8.1 on my PC laptop and have recently had trouble with OCR at work. When I try to run OCR I get a pop-up box telling me Acrobat cannot perform the function because of renderable text, however if I run OCR on the same file using my desktop PC (which has version 10 installed) I have no trouble. Also, I am no longer able to print items (such as a webpage) to PDF, and instead receive a pop-up box telling me something about the AdobePDF.dll file being missing or not functioning, and an error message when I double click the printer icon at the bottom right corner of my screen. I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat and then reinstalled it yesterday, however it did not fix either problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
what windows version you are using? I think your problem might be due to corrupt operating system. Try reinstalling the OS and reinstall Acrobat soon after.
Good luck!
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someone was having the problem below with an older version of acrobat.
is there now a solution in acrobat mac x?
i note that exporting to image file loses quality and increases file size
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Well, since this is the digital age, it makes sense that I ought to read the PDFs in digital form (this is a stretch for me, I really like paper), which is facilitated by a tablet since I can actually see the page when it’s in the portrait configuration. It also makes sense that I ought to mark up the file in Acrobat, using the native highlighting and searching tools, which is also facilitated by the tablet for obvious reasons.
Here’s the problem. Apparently *every* PDF file, in every digital library, is tagged with headers, or footers, or bates numbers, or some other tag that halts the OCR recognition of the PDF file. If you google “This page contains renderable text”, you’ll see that this has been a complaint since Acrobat 6 at least. So you can’t just OCR the document and get a nice, mark-up-able document.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. There has to be a workaround, right? Of course, there is. You can manually remove the headers and try again. Oh, now there’s a footer; you can take that out too (manually) and try again. Oh, now there’s a bates number, okay, take that out too. There’s STILL some renderable text in there somewhere, well, now you can either try and edit out the blocks of renderable text (again, manually, made more entertaining by the fact that you can’t just right click on the page and say “remove renderable text”), or you can export the entire document to a graphics file (say, a TIFF), re-convert it to a PDF file (which turns the entire document into a rasterized image), and THEN run the OCR tool to get an actual mark-up-able document. This process is made more enjoyable by the fact that Acrobat will turn that 300 page dissertation you’re reading as part of your research into 300 distinct TIFF files, which you then need to recombine into a PDF file. Multiply this by 100, and you’ll see what sort of a barrier to productivity this is for me to get started organizing my existing document collection.
This is CLOSE TO THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. And I’ve seen a LOT of bad design. Rather than prompting me “This document has renderable text” and giving me “Cancel” as the only option, any feature-driven developer would say, “Gosh, people get really frustrated by this. I know, because I can read the results of a simple google search. We need to change this right away! Here, I’ll make it so that you can just click ‘Treat existing renderable text as white space’ or even prompt the user to rasterize the renderable text and embed it in the document, then OCR the resulting file!”
The only conceivable reason I can imagine that this hasn’t taken place is because your lovable electronic document vendor wants to make it a colossally, enormously painful process for someone to actually do anything to the document they’re providing you to use. Thank you, electronic document vendor. You’re going to be wasting about 20% of the time that you’re saving me by giving me electronic access to this document in the first place.
Progress is grand. Collide it with self-interest, progress seems to lose out more often than not.
Now, if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go get some sleep. Then I’m going to get up in the morning and go to work. Then I’m going to come home, and instead of enjoying some family time with my kids, I’m going to fart around with manual document conversion.Elias,
I completely agree with your anger. I ran into the same problem and I think I have figured out a workaround. I wrote up a blog post about it.
http://www.ideationizing.com/2011/03/ocr-acrobat-pdf-with-renderable-text.html
I hope this works for you. -
My ultimate goal is to have as complete a “Full Text Index” as possible. To that end, I have a couple of questions. I have both scanned pdfs and pdfs that have been created from word or powerpoint and have renderable text.
for those files with renderable text
If a page has renderable text, is all of the text included when the “Full Text Index” is built?
If a page has renderable text and an image, is the text within the image ignored when the “Full Text Index” is built?
If I OCR the document, if a page has renderable text and an image, is the image ignored during the OCR process?
If I OCR the document, if a page has an image and no renderable text, is the text within the image recognized during the OCR process?
Thanks.1. If a page has renderable text, is all of the text included when the “Full Text Index” is built?
The key question is "Do the renderable texts' fonts map to Unicode?" Fonts that map to Unicode are searchable.
Such will be harvested by the Catalog index.
Using Acrobat Pro you can create a preflight to check for this.
2. If a page has renderable text and an image, is the text within the image ignored when the “Full Text Index” is built?
Ok, a scanned image of text has no "text" just pixels that look like text - it is all just an image.
So, nothing to be harvested by the Catalog index. The page's renderable text will be harvested by the Catalog index.
3. If I OCR the document, if a page has renderable text and an image, is the image ignored during the OCR process?
A page of a PDF that has renderable text cannot be OCR'd.
Provided the page's content is an image containing pixels representing characters OCR will attempt to recognize these and provide an output.
If Searchable Image or Searchable Image (Exact) is used the "recognized" output is a hidden/invisible layer (text rendering mode 3 - no stroke, no fill).
The scanned image remains on the page. Searchable Image 'tweaks' the image. Searchable Image (Exact) does not.
So, for both you have the scanned image and the hidden layer of OCR output.
Alternatively, if you use ClearScan recognized characters (in the image) are replaced with an Acrobat generated font.
Anything not recognized is left as a bitmap of the 'character'.
So, the image is not ignored by OCR as it is what OCR analyses to recognize characters for providing an output.
A Catalog index will harvest the OCR output of any of the three OCR modes.
4. If I OCR the document, if a page has an image and no renderable text, is the text within the image recognized during the OCR process?
OCR will attempt to recognize the pixels that represent characters and when recognized provide an output.
A Catalog index will harvest the OCR output.
Be well... -
When I make a Book using Aperture 3 and print a PDF proof version, all images that have been modified within Aperture are distorted in PDF form. All other images appear ok.
As if only the corrected layer would have remained on the photos.
So the geometry of the pictures is correct - they are not skewed or something? Only the colors and intensities are wrong?
. Only in printing when it is converted to PDF file some photos are unrecognizable.
Is it the printed pdf or the pdf viewed on the screen? If it is the printed copy you need to fix your print settings.
Does Aperture give a warning, that the high resolution images are not available?
We had some cases of books not being able to be printed, and that was due to a broken reference to the original files. Only the book could not access the originals, all other parts of Aperture could. To check for this, try to add one more adjustment to one of the images in question. Is it possible? Are the edits reflected correctly in the pdf of the book?
We were shooting with 3 cameras, Lumix5 shooting RAW, Cannon 100 shooting JPEG and SONY alfa850 shooting RAW.
Have you tried to reprocess the raw of the edited images? (Photos > Reprocess Raw)
Also try, to remove one of the images from the book and to add it again. That usually helps, if Aperture has lost the connection to the originals used in the book.
If you no have done so already, repair (and if necessary rebuild) the Aperture library.
See: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
Regards
Léonie -
How do I download and print a pdf file in osx mountain lion
How do I download and print a pdf file?
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Open it on your desktop Command-P is the short cut for print option. -
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I truly need your reply!
Any reply or a hint or a reference to another application is welcome.
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In my job at university I use Word 2003 (version 10) in my new iMac. Since I updated to MacOS 10.6.4 I have problems with the printing menu. That means that I can not print or convert to PDF or even generate a preview. When trying to print or obtain a preview, word freezes and I have to force quit. When trying to generate a pdf file it does, but the generated file is unreadable (it says is damaged) and word freezes again. I have played with the preferences, change user and it didn't help. I checked the Font Book and indeed they were many duplicated fonts. I sorted them out, but the problem persists. With very short files it works, but with longer ones word invariably crashes when trying to print or make a pdf. I took one long .doc file and I copied into my laptop (MacBook pro, 2008) that was running 10.6.3. I printed it and converted to pdf; no problems at all. Then, for the sake of knowledge, I updated the system to 10.4.6 and then I couldn't print or create a pdf with the very same file, so it seems that certainly the update is reponsible. So now I know cause but I can not print from any of my computers. To me convert to pdf is an important functionality so I would appreciate any help. I have some ideas: reinstall Office 2003? reinstall 10.6 from the disk (and not update)? use Time Machine to restore the system as it was before the update?
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*How to Reset the Printing System*
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2. Move your mouse over the Printers list
3. Hold down the Control button and click the mouse (or right click if supported).
4. Click "Reset printing system ..."
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I'm trying to create a 20 page 8x8 book which consists of 10 16x10 spreads. In other words, page 1 and page 20 are not start on the right and left respectively, there are exactly 10 16x10 spreads. This is a requirement for KISS wedding books. I am running into two problems:
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In any event, I'm on my way out to talk to that neighbor's dog...
(The one I mentioned in my timed-out post that had been
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All of a sudden Very Slow Printing and Print to PDF
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[SOLVED] Evince and printing certain PDFs
Hi,
I'm trying to print PDF files from Evince to my new PostScript printer (OKI C531dn with OKI PPD file). Basically, it works until a national character like an Umlaut is encountered. Then the printer stops and just says "invalidfont".
It seems to be a similar problem as described in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148446 and some of the workarounds seem to do the trick.
If i convert to ps first and print the same file in Evince, it's correct
pdftops file.pdf file.ps
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EDIT2: I just tried with zathura: Using the poppler pdf plugin, the same results as above occur, even when just previewing. However, with the zathura mupdf plugin, the problem is gone and the page previews and prints fine. Using Adobe Reader, it prints fine as well.
Last edited by mauritzius (2014-10-04 12:08:02)Today, I installed Infinality-bundle and now everything is working fine.
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Difference between PDFmaker/distiller and print-to-PDF
When I create a PDF from within MS Word either through the File > Print menu, or through the Adobe PDF > Convert to Adobe PDF menu (i.e. PDFmaker?) I end up with subtly different results, despite using exactly the same joboptions file. Why is this?!
Samples are attached.
In the first pair, the text glyph placement differs.
In the second pair (see following), the dotted circle outlines are different. [Also the leftmost grey table border is claimed to be different, although I can't pick the difference by eye.]
(Adobe identifies the problems through Acrobat's Document > Compare Documents menu — set for detailed analysis of page-by-page visual differences — although for the character positioning it's a bit subjective, I think.)
Tip: you have to zoom in a lot to see these on screen.
Thesis_ExtraPages-PDF2—HRdEM.pdf
Thesis_ExtraPages-PDF2—HRpEM.pdf
p = printed to PDF
d = "distilled" (PDFMaker)Hi Bill@VT,
you may well be correct in your comments, but I don't yet see the connection to my question. This could be partly due to my loose/incorrect use of the terminology.
To clarify:
* The two PDF file types were both created directly from within MS Word; one just printing, after setting Adobe PDF as the printer, and the other going through the extra Adobe menu (which would be equivalent to clicking the toolbar icon, I believe).
* I realise there are lots of settings relating to bookmarks, metadata, etc. that only apply to the second route above. My query is not about such differences.
* With regard to the settings that are common to both routes, I set them to be identical (in theory) by selecting the same joboptions profile/file.
* The differences I see and/or that Adobe Acrobat identifies are visual differences. (At least on screen.)
In fact, from your explanation that both of the above two routes use the Adobe PDF printer (and neither use the Distiller), I am even more puzzled as to how visual differences can arise.
—DIV -
Why does my computer freeze when I try and print a pdf?
I have a new computer with Windows 7 64 bit. It seemed that suddenly i developed this problem when trying to print a pdf file with Adobe X. Everything would look like it was going fine, but when the print download screen popped up, it would not download the pdf file and my computer froze. I have to manually shut down my computer to unfreeze it. I have tried to print using an earlier version of Adobe (Adobe 9), tried a different printer, tried printing as an image, or print as a file. Nothing works. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Printing: computer freezing when I try and print a PDF
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Hi twcco,
Let's see what we can figure out. We'll need to get some basic information from you to figure out where there problem lies:
Are you having trouble with a specific PDF file, or with any PDF that you try to print?
Are you on Mac OS or Windows (and what version)?
Are you printing from Reader or Acrobat (again, what version)?
Are you printing directly to the printer, or over WiFi/network?
Are you able to print from other applications?
I look forward to hearing back from you. We'll see what we can do to get to the bottom of this printing issue.
Best,
Sara
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