OCR

Use the OCR Documents wizard to create text files for documents without them.

To generate text for documents without text

  1. Filter or select the documents you want to work with as necessary.
  2. In the ReadySuite ribbon, click Process > OCR Images > Create Text Files to open the OCR Documents wizard.

  3. On the OCR Output page, select how you want the text files to be generated and stored.
    • Skip Pages: Select to ignore documents from OCR if a text file already exists. (See the HasText* field for documents to be skipped.)
    • Output Format: Select to create one text file per document. Clear if you want each page to have its own text file.
    • Save Location: Select to save text files in-place with image files or a separate output folder.
    • Control List: Select to create a control list file for the documents processed.

      • If you selected Save Location not in-place, specify the destination directory and the folder and file name structures.

  4. Click Next.
  5. On the OCR Options page, specify the cleanup and processing options for the generation of the OCR.

  6. Click Start.

  7. On the OCR Progress page, click Finish.

After OCR is complete, in the ReadySuite ribbon, click View > Pages View to preview the OCR in the Document Pages panel.

To generate searchable PDFs for documents

  1. Filter or select the documents you want to work with as necessary.
  2. In the ReadySuite ribbon, click Process > OCR Images > Create PDF Files to open the Create Searchable PDFs wizard.
  3. On the Save Settings page, specify the destination directory in the Output Folder.

  4. Click Next.
  5. On the Recognition Options page, specify the recognition engine, language, and pre-processing options.

  6. Click Start.

  7. On the Recognition Progress page, click Finish.