About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 5/31/2007 Subject: Why can't search my PDF
Question I scanned a docuemnt into Acrobat, and want to search for the words but i can't - how do i do that ?
Answer Hi Wully,
Hey, use a spell check my man !
okay -- Open the image in Acrobat - you will need Acrobat Standard or professional - then go under the Recognize text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) - this tool will actually analyses the shapes of the letter, form words and then place hidden text behind the image of the text in the proper position. You can then save, and search and find any text that it was able to find - sometimes the scan is poor quality, and Acrobat might miss a word or two, but it most works great - hope this helps !
