Question
Bank Of America
US
Last activity: 23 Aug 2019 17:00 EDT
Can Document OCR not get text out of a scanned pdf?
I have tried processToXml and ProcessToPdf and tried putting ProcessToPdf before each of these and thried everything with and without ocrImagesAndText being true. everything just returns false. I am trying to get text out of a pdf produced by scanning a paper document, but there are even some pdfs the regular pdf connector can read that document ocr cannot, unless I just cannot sort out how to use it. I can make it get text from images in word documents and it can get text out of a pdf I make by doing a print to pdf, so I know I am not doing everything wrong. can this component actually not get text from a scanned pdf?
Pegasystems Inc.
US
It can but a lower quality of the scan may be the reason. I would suggest you open a support request so that they can examine your specific PDF unless you can attach it here for the community to examine.
Bank Of America
US
document is sensitive but it is very high quality. doc OCR actually fails on some PDFs that can be had with the regular pdf Connector. I made a thing to do what I want to do anyway, here you go.
public void pngThat(string path)
{
AcroPDDoc pdfd = new AcroPDDoc();
pdfd.Open(path);
document is sensitive but it is very high quality. doc OCR actually fails on some PDFs that can be had with the regular pdf Connector. I made a thing to do what I want to do anyway, here you go.
public void pngThat(string path)
{
AcroPDDoc pdfd = new AcroPDDoc();
pdfd.Open(path);
Object jsObj = pdfd.GetJSObject();
Type jsType = pdfd.GetType();
object[] saveAsParam = { "out.png", "com.adobe.acrobat.png", "", false, false };
jsType.InvokeMember("saveAs", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance, null, jsObj, saveAsParam, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
Bank Of America
US
forgot to say, that code uses Acrobat SDK, so this is only helpful to people with Acrobat Pro DC. We have to bring a free-er easier solution to the people, Tsasnett Sir. Acrobat SDK rough and not free.