Use acrobat 8 in a shellscript and make a pdf file OCR recognize text with selected language
Hello everybody !
I have a little problem and I don't know how to overcome this...
I want to use a shellscript and call acrobat.exe and open a pdf file (up till now I've done this..), but the difficult part is that I want in this shellscript to use parameters/switches in order to make the pdf file OCR text recognized and use selected language e.g greek !!!!
How can i do that?
What is the command prompt parameters...?
In command line when i use
c:\> cd C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat> acrobat.exe <pdffile>
it opens the pdf file in the acrobat....
So what switches do I have to insert next?
Thanks a lot in advance !!!!
Microsoft has released a hot fix that supposedly addresses this issue, it is at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977468
I downloaded the fix and tried it; it actually made the problem worse! Apparently they
are trying to fix their filter rather than bypassing it. What I am doing is
1. Making maps in AutoCaD Map and printing (plotting in autocad) them to a pdf file
2. Opening the pdf file in Acrobat and resaving it as eps
3. Importing the eps file into a Word 2007 document
4. Use Acrobat to convert the Word document to pdf
Before the hot fix when I did the process the resolution of the map in the final
pdf file was not as good as in the original made from AutoCad. Also the colors were
not correct. After installing the hotfix there are still these same problems but also now
any non horizontal text is not displaying correctly.
Be careful about trying this hotfix.
As others have noted, back in Word 2003 the above steps 1 - 4 worked very well and resulted
in a high quality pdf file with the map as good as in the original pdf.
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