Hi,
The problem with your scanning attempts is that you are just capturing
an image of the page. To have searchable content, you need to perform
optical character recognition on the images.
According to:
http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrcapture/
Then yes, this will create PDFs that contain searchable words - although
with all OCR solutions, there is the question of accuracy, and for that
you would need the opinion of someone with experience of using the
product.
G
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 12:55 +0200, Jennifer Ash wrote:
Dear Community Members
The Water Research Commission (WRC, South Africa) is currently
assessing a pilot installation of DSpace.
We want to use DSpace to store, search and retrieve all our WRC
research reports and Water SA (a scientific publication, 4 issues pa)
issues (this is the primary goal; other collections will most likely
be added over time).
We are faced with a problem in that most of our older publications are
not in electronic format and will have to be scanned.
Scanning and saving as PDF does not provide a full text searchable
document in DSpace; I've tried it.
A product, Adobe Capture, is advertised as a 'tool that teams with
your scanner to convert volumes of paper documents into searchable
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files'.
We are keen to investigate this product but there are no trial
downloads offered by Adobe.
Do you have any knowledge of this product? Can you advise on a
suitable tehnology solution for our problem? Our backlog is vast and
spans many years, so there are loads of documents that need to be
scanned.
I do hope someone can give me advice.
Kind regards
Jennifer Ash
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