OCR Accession Paperwork

OCR Accession Paperwork in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Convert a stack of accession paperwork into searchable text so I can find donors and dates quickly.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Convert the accession paperwork batch to searchable PDF so I can find donors and dates: scan all…
Convert the accession paperwork batch to searchable PDF so I can find donors and dates: scan all forms, run text recognition on the folder of files, save searchable PDFs named by [donor surname], and place them in the [folder=accession index folder].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Improve discoverability for colleagues who search donors and dates: standardize filenames to…
Improve discoverability for colleagues who search donors and dates: standardize filenames to '[filepattern=YYYYMMDD_Surname_Given_accession.pdf]', run OCR with language set to English, correct any misread donor names in the first page text, and extract a quick index spreadsheet of donor and date fields alongside the PDFs.

Who does this, and with what

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ArchivistAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Make Accession Text Searchablealso: Index Donor and Date Fields

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