OCR Scanned Permit

OCR Scanned Permit 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 scanned permit application into searchable text so I can find the applicant's name quickly.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Run OCR on the scanned permit application for [parcel=Parcel 212-07] so the applicant name and…
Run OCR on the scanned permit application for [parcel=Parcel 212-07] so the applicant name and address become searchable text, then save the searchable PDF to the permit record.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the scanned permit easy to search for the intake clerk: run OCR with language set to English,…
Make the scanned permit easy to search for the intake clerk: run OCR with language set to English, correct the top-line applicant name and parcel number if OCR confidence is low, and add a one-line metadata tag for Applicant: [applicant=Maria Soto] so colleagues can find it quickly.

Who does this, and with what

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Zoning InspectorAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Make Application Searchable

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