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Make sure that you don't have any renderable text in
the document (I have had a big problem with this )as
acrobat will not pick this up and you will not be able
to search the text. 

Vikas Nanda



--- "Steven M. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Acrobat 6.0 (Standard) or Acrobat 6.0 (Professional)
> will do that.  Paper
> Capture (OCR) is built into both.  You can create
> the PDF directly from the
> scanner into PDF using the "create PDF function"  or
> convert the tiff scan
> to PDF using Acrobat - and then OCR using Acrobat
> 6.0  which will create
> searchable text within the PDF file.  The Image
> Exact option for OCR in
> Acrobat is particularly  nice, since it adds
> searchable text to the PDF file
> but does not alter the integrity of the scanned
> image so that a paper print
> of the PDF  scanned image is true to the original
> scanned image.
> 
> Steve Harris
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Todd Kelly
>   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:40 PM
>   Subject: [PDF] Searchable pdf
> 
> 
>   I'm looking for a reliable, accurate and
> inexpensive software that will
> convert scanned images to searchable pdf files.
> 
> 
> 
>   Todd
> 
> 
> 


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