Renderable text and indexing

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...

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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.

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BUG - in flash pro CC, 'bold' and 'italic' properties of TextFormat have no effect on rendered text

Concise problem statement:
If you compile with flash pro CC, and use the 'setTextFormat' method of a TextField, the 'bold' and 'italic' properties of the TextFormat argument have no effect on the rendered text. If you compile with flash pro CS6, the 'bold' and 'italic' properties work as expected.
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Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Create an xfl with 2 TextFields on the stage, both with font "Trebuchet MS" and style "regular", one named boldTrueText containing the String "bold = true", one named fontNameText containing the String "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold". Create 2 more TextFields on the stage for visual reference, both with font "Trebuchet MS", one with style "regular", one with style "bold".
2. Add the following code to the Actions panel on frame 1:
import flash.text.TextFormat;
import flash.text.Font;
var format:TextFormat = boldTrueText.getTextFormat();
format.bold = true;
boldTrueText.setTextFormat(format);
format = fontNameText.getTextFormat();
format.font = "Trebuchet MS Bold";
fontNameText.setTextFormat(format);
var fonts:Array = Font.enumerateFonts(), count:int = fonts.length;
for (var i:int = 0; i < count; i++) {
var font:Font = fonts[i];
trace("fontName: " + font.fontName + ", fontStyle: " + font.fontStyle);
3. Save, and compile with flash pro CS6 and flash pro CC.
Results:
With flash pro CS6, "bold = true" renders bold, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" DOES NOT RENDER.
With flash pro CS6, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
With flash pro CC, "bold = true" renders regular, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" renders bold.
With flash pro CC, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
fontName: Trebuchet MS Bold, fontStyle: bold
Expected results:
The same text is rendered in both flash pro CS6 and CC. I don't know why this behavior was changed in flash pro CC - it causes silent failures in code which dynamically changes font styles. I expected the flash pro CS6 behavior to remain the same in CC, like so:
With flash pro CC, "bold = true" renders bold, and "fontName = Trebuchet MS Bold" DOES NOT RENDER.
With flash pro CC, the following is traced:
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
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fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: bold
fontName: Trebuchet MS, fontStyle: regular
fontName: Trebuchet MS Bold, fontStyle: bold
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What version of Pages are you referring to?
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Peter

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

This same file will recognize text & provide searchable document in Adobe 9.
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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.

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Harm filled in pretty much all the salient details, but I'll do another pass here.
1) How do I avoid error messages in regards to indexing and conforming
Two parts here. One, conforming only happens for certain media files, ie the ones where performance is critical and we can't depend on extracting the audio fast enough for realtime playback. That's basically anything in an .mpeg wrapper, or AVCHD material. So if you edit XDCAM HD/EX or P2, or RED, or even AVIs or QT, those formats don't require audio conforming.
If you're stuck editing AVCHD or MPEG2, then it needs to conform. But, that being said, you shouldn't be getting errors in the first place. I think it's related to your external drives. More below...
2) How do you know when indexing/conforming has completed itself? (there doesn't seem to be a progress log or a list of commands/executions)
Nope, you have a progress status bar indicating which file it's working on. If there's an error, it shows up in the events panel.
3) Indexing and conforming appears to be an automatic process, but is there a way to do it manually?
No.
4) What's the best way to setup your media cache files when you click EDIT > PREFERENCES > MEDIA?
While some people like having the check box for having the conform files beside the media, I hate it. Yes, it means that if you move the project to a different system & reopen, it means that you potentially can avoid recreating CFA files, but I find the drive littering not worth it. I much prefer having setting the Media prefs to point to a specific media drive. Usually a raid, if available. Definitely not an external drive that you disconnect & walk away with. If you don't have a permanent raid on your system, then preferably a dedicated internal drive for media (think along the lines as your Photoshop 'scratch disk'). Failing that, leave it on your C: drive, although with a 64 Gig SSD, you probably don't have much room for transient temporaries.
5) If I have approximately 1 hour of footage, what's an average wait time for conforming/indexing? What about 5 hours of footage? 10?
Like Harm said. Totally dependant on the media container & the speed of your drive i/o. The conforming is iterating through the entire file & pulling audio data, so it's not CPU intensive, it's all i/o.
6) Adobe recommends not editing until the conforming and indexing has completed itself-- how important is this?
If you're trying to play/scrub while conforming, it's going to be pokey. Esp. if you're trying to access the file that's actively being conformd. As I just said, we're hitting the files for all the audio. The i/o is being saturated already, so unless you have a stellar raid, you don't have much headroom.
7) Sometimes it appears as though the conforming and indexing has finished, but then I still have problems with playback. Do I have to reopen the project for it to continue with the conforming/indexing progress? I've already determined that the video file I'm working with is intact and free of any corruption.
You should be good to go. Sounds like there's something else at play here.
Okay, back to what I think is wrong: you don't mention what kind of external drives you're using. You're making a bad assumption that blowing away conformed files & doing a reconform is buggy - I doubt it, as that's the same process that happened when you initially brought in the files. I've blown away my media cache folder multiple times and have never seen failures on reconform. So it's got to be one of two things: either a read error from the source when attempting to pull the audio, or a write error to the destination. Now I don't know where you currently are pointing the media cache directory, or what your source drive is, so I can only speculate.
My suggestion is to do some elimination. Copy one of the files that failed on you to your C drive, & target your media cache directory also to C:. Pick a new project, import your copied file, confirm that it conforms correctly & behaves. Then, try to use the same clip from your external drive, keeping the media cache to C:. If that's still good, then try targeting another (local/internal) drive as your media cache target; close/restart, then import the clip from C:, and then import the clip from your external drive. This troubleshooting should give us something.
PS, if you're trying to edit from external USB drives, good luck. I find it a major PITA that I avoid as much as possible. Firewire isn't much better. I know some people do it successfully, but I think it's a road fraught with peril. These devices are generally not designed for heavy duty I/O and a flaky connection or drive is nothing but pain.
Cheers

Trying to OCR pdf, pdf says it can't perform bc it already contains renderable text-but does not.

I work for a large agency, and we receive PDF's all the time. 98% of the time I am able to OCR a document with no issues. Just recently I have come across this issue several times, and was wondering if anyone can solve this irritating problem!
*Acrobat 8.1 - When going to OCR the document, I receive the following message " Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because this page already contains renderable text. However, it does not. When you go to select text or search for anything the whole page is selected (like it's still in a "picture" format, not a document format that you can search, ect.)
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While the alert speaks to "renderable text" that is a simplification. The issue is that you've PDF page content consisting of at least one renderable "character".
Look at font families - you will observe that there are many characters that are not "text" characters (i.e., linguistic characters).
So, there's a "renderable character" present. It may be an alpha numeric that has a font color the same as the page background. It may be under the image and thus not visible to the eye.
You might be able to determine just what is present.
You could export the page of interest to a text file then view that file.
You could deplay the page of interest in Acrobat Pro then select the "Content panel" to view the content tree.
Locate and click on the page number for the page of interest.
From the Content panel's Options menu select "Highlight Content".
Walk down the tree. Select the content containers in turn and observe what is highlighted on the PDF page.
Where might the renderable character come from ? Typically that'd be associated with something in the work flow.
Not always easy to find so don't take anything in the work flow for granted.
Be well...

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Hi all,
I'm attempting to use cfmailpart to send a HTML and plain text email all in the same cfmail script. I'm using Outlook and Gmail to test. I temporarily changed my Outlook settings to "read all standard mail in plain text," but it does not read the plain text cfmailpart of the email, it just attempts to format the text from the HTML email and display the links. If I remove the HTML cfmailpart from my cfmail script, the plain text version is delivered, but Outlook removes extra line breaks that I actually want to keep intact, and some of the other formatting is improperly rendered. Is there a better way to make sure email clients hold the plain text formatting (even though there really isn't any formatting with plain text) and a better way to test? The HTML version looks great in both Gmail and Outlook.
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Use the wraptext attribute of the cfmailpart tag to add line breaks.

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to PDF for the final output, there are often pages with text in them that isn’t recognizable,
or that can’t be found with a CTRL+F search.
That is a serious issue, and one we might be able to help you with, but really, quite separate from the issue here. It's too late to try and fix this once it is a PDF.
What is it that’s lost when OCR is run?
Quality. Small file size. Tags (which might be required legally). Almost everything except the basic text, and that might also be lost given that OCR is not guaranteed to work. This is NOT the right way to solve your problem.
The translator doesn’t have any Adobe products except Reader, so I’m limited to Acrobat
to show her how the words and pictures are laid out on a page.
In order for her to copy and paste that text – or search it, to find all of the places where the
same word might be used – I need to make sure every word is there for her to grab.
I have heard of translators trying to work with PDFs, and few that succeed. You can reasonably expect a transation service to support FrameMaker. But if they don't I recommend you extract the text from FrameMaker to a simple Word or text file. They should be fine using the PDF as a visual reference, and having the text to translate, and for you to flow back into the original layout. (Again, something I'd expect a full service translation to do themselves, but there are advantages to keeping control too).
Those were the 2 pages that gave the ‘renderable text’ error. Don’t ask me why or how, they
look like all the other pages in that document. Except Acrobat thinks they’re scanned graphics,
that’s how they present when you wave the cursor around in them, hunting for text.
Renderable text is just text. It means that somewhere on that page there is text. Surely there is layout, page numbers, whatever from FrameMaker on the pages. If not, we really need to look at your production methods - back to the first point.

Why won't text and graphics line up in adobe premiere?

Hey, I have been out of the editing thing for about 8 years now. I recently needed to make a video for another business I run.
Anway, I am using animated / still graphics and the basic text titles that come with premiere. I see that the graphics line up correctly behind the text in the Previews Folder. When I render it, the text has shifted down completely. Also, the text and graphics look horrible after it's rendered, very pixelated. I used to be a pro at this stuff and in fact, I would use flash to import my animated graphics. But it seems that doesn't work anymore either. (That would probably solve this problem too). Anyone know why this is taking place in the final render??
I would much rather you ask the questions before i post all sorts of unnecessary info.
Premiere Pro 1.5.1
Thanks!

1. not sure what you mean by "preset". The project settings are:
General -
Capture - DV 1394 -
Video Sequence -
Default Sequence -
2. The dimensions of the stills are 2000x2000, *.png
3.Titles - I do not align them here, I align them in the effects controls
4. Screen Cap
5. Export settings
6. That article is nice, but not what I'm needing. remember, the preview clips shows everything perfectly lined up. but the final export shows all the text being shifted down.
Thanks for the reply, I look forward to a response and I hope these answer your questions.

Space between text and images?

I have a gallery of images with headings above them and am trying to change the distance between the text and the images. I have tried floats and padding but cant get it to work. My headings are in a table and my images are not so it seems that there is some sort of default padding between the images and the text tables.
Here is a link..
http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/silvagilroy.html

Copy & paste this into a new, blank html page. It's a real quick and dirty layout but hopefully it will show you what you need to know.
FYI Code errors do matter. 90% of browser rendering issues are directly related to code. Trouble shooting is made that much easier when you work with clean code.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled</title>
<style type="text/css">
CSS layout modified by Alt-Web Design and Publishing www.alt-web.com 8/17/2010
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif;
background: #FFF;
text-align:center;
#container {
width : 1000px; /**adjust width in px, ems or % **/
margin : 0 auto; /**centered on page**/
border : 1px solid #020873;
text-align : left;
background: navy;
#header {
width: 100%;
min-height: 100px; /**same height as background image; if none; remove height**/
_height: 100px;
padding:0;
color: #FFF;
#header h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 20px;
font-size: 14px;
text-transform:uppercase;
#header address {
padding: 0 20px;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight:bold;
#sidebar1 {
width: 175px;
height: 1%;
padding: 15px 5px;
/**to reduce float drop issues in IE6**/
overflow: hidden;
float: left;
color: #FFF;
#mainContent {
margin: 0 0 0 190px;
background: #FFF;
padding: 10px;
#footer {
padding: 0 10px;
background:#DDD;
clear: both;
#footer p {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px 0;
font-size: 12px;
color: #CC3300;
text-align: center;
/**BEGIN PHOTOS**/
/**this styles the image container**/
#photos p {
float:left;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid silver;
/**this styles caption text**/
font: italic 12px/1 Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #666;
text-align:center;
line-height: 2em;
margin: 22px;
/**same size images recommended, adjust as req'rd**/
#photos img {
width:121px;
height:90px
/**photos float clearing**/
.clearing {
clear:left;
height:1px;
width: 100%;
/**re-usable CLASSES**/
.left {text-align: left}
.center {text-align: center}
.right {text-align:right}
</style>

</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<h1 class="right">Company Name </h1>
<address class="right">
address, city, state,
telephone
</address>
 </div>
<div id="sidebar1">
<p>#sidebar1 = 175px wide + 10px padding </p>
<p>insert your list menus here</p>
<p>insert your ads here</p>
<p> </p>
<p><end of sidebar1> </p>
 </div>

<div id="mainContent">
<h1>#container = 1000px </h1>
<h1>#mainContent = left-margin 190px </h1>
<h3> </h3>
<h3>Begin #Photos </h3>

<div id="photos">
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
<p>optional caption<br />
<img src="http://www.rsicorp.org/rsi/images/Thumbs Pre/1001thumb.jpg" alt="some description" /></p>
</div>

<hr class="clearing" />
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>Your footer text goes here</p>
 </div>
 </div>
</body>
</html> 
Good luck with your project,
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
http://alt-web.com/
http://twitter.com/altweb

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