<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I'm a big fan of Acrobat Pro. <br>OCR then Optimize. In my experience Optimizing then OCR doesn't always work as far as the OCR part goes... doing the OCR first ensures all text gets converted so you can copy/paste/editable text. If you optimize first, the OCR may miss more.<br><br>I'd set it up in Adobe batch processing. It's probably going to allow you to control more than Automator. <br><br>-A.<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 12/3/09, Victoria L. Herring <i><VLH@HerringLaw.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Victoria L. Herring <VLH@HerringLaw.com><br>Subject: [DM-MUG] Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 Batch processing<br>To: MacLaw@yahoogroups.com<br>Cc: "MUG Des Moines" <dmmug@dmmug.org><br>Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 2:20 PM<br><br><div
class="plainMail"> maybe a simple Q = if I'm trying to set up a Batch Processing <br>Sequence in AAP9, which comes first the chicken or the egg: do I <br>Optimize the PDF file lst and then OCR the scanned PDF or do I do it <br>vice versa???<br><br>Can I do more with Automator or should I set up the batch processing <br>all or almost all in AdobeAcrobat?<br>-- <br>Victoria L. Herring, Des Moines, Iowa. Blogs: <br><a href="http://blog.JourneyZing.com" target="_blank">http://blog.JourneyZing.com</a> [photography]; <br><a href="http://www.herringlaw.com" target="_blank">http://www.herringlaw.com</a> [lawfirm]; <br><a href="http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/" target="_blank">http://victorialherring.typepad.com/serendipity/</a> [personal]; <br>Twitter: VictoriaJZ.<br>_______________________________________________<br>DMMUG mailing list<br>Use this Address to send mail to the list:<br><a
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