PDF Search function

I had 2249 pages of old military base newspapers scanned
onto a DVD, into folders by years and then by weeks. The company that scanned then said the DVD did not have enough memory on 1DVD  for the seach function to work. now that i have the DVD can i make a new DVD with only 1 years of scans per DVD so maybe the search function will work? I have adobe reader 9 and have windows7 system. I hope someone can help me. with 2249 pages i want tobe able to use the search function.

yokota69 wrote:
Yes i bet they just scanned the image like you said.  how do i do the  OCR
so that it will work?
Mike Skidmore 
You would need an application that has the ability to do OCR. Adobe Acrobat can do it or there are other companies that make dedicated OCR applications such as http://finereader.abbyy.com/.
If you don't have the need for all of the other features of Adobe Acrobat, FineReader will be a cheaper purchase.

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