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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Aug 19, 2016 11:32AM

I don't find the on-board OCR in Acrobat to be useful. I first take a scanned document into ABBYY PDF Transformer and make the text searchable. I then take the document back into Acrobat and then perform the OCR. This gives me fewer errors. I can then work with the document, first adding links or form controls and then Tag the document. Once the document is tagged, I can perform any remediations and add any Alt Text.

Cheers, Karen