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Doing OCR Batch Processing Using The ScanSnap And ABBYY FineReader
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3:09 pm
January 8, 2012


Brooks

Vancouver, BC

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Sometimes, when you have to scan a large number of documents at once, the step of doing OCR (making the PDF searchable) after each document can really slow things down. It may be preferable to scan them all in and then OCR them all in one big shot.

In the past I have posted about how to do batch OCR using Adobe Acrobat and have posted an Acrobat Applescript.

Over at the Optimality! blog, Tobi has posted a walkthrough of using ABBYY Finereader, which comes with the ScanSnap S1500M (and S1500 for that matter) to do batch OCR.

The problem is that in…


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