OCR Student Essays

OCR Student Essays 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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Turn scanned student essays into searchable text so I can quickly find examples of specific skills.

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 student essays from [month=last month] so the text is searchable, export the…
Run OCR on the scanned student essays from [month=last month] so the text is searchable, export the corrected PDFs to a folder named [folder=Essay Samples], and confirm OCR accuracy for [N=5] random pages by [deadline=Friday].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make the essay archive usable: run OCR on all scans, correct common recognition errors for names…
Make the essay archive usable: run OCR on all scans, correct common recognition errors for names and rubric terms, tag each essay with student [name] and skill level in metadata, and export searchable PDFs to Essay Samples so I can quickly search for examples of specific skills at conference time.

Who does this, and with what

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EducatorAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Make Essays Searchablealso: Index For Quick Search

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