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Re: Fixing PDF OCR Errors

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From: chagnon
Date: Aug 15, 2018 12:43PM

Adobe has some good tutorials on this.
http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2016/03/correcting-ocr-errors/

Keep in mind that you're working with two items:
1) the actual scanned image, which is a graphic of the text, and
2) Acrobat's interpretation of the graphical text as live, editable text.

You need to correct the second, Acrobat's interpretation of the graphical
text. Acrobat will show you possible candidates of what it wasn't sure were
correct interpretations, but it's a bit more work to correct what Acrobat
thinks is correct, such as zeros instead of capital letter O's.

-Bevi

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