Recognize Scanned Text

Recognize Scanned Text 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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Run text recognition on a scanned deposition transcript so key passages can be searched.

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 deposition transcript from [date=June 8] so key passages can be searched:…
Run OCR on the scanned deposition transcript from [date=June 8] so key passages can be searched: recognize text across all pages, verify text layer accuracy, and export a searchable PDF to our matter folder by close of business.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before distributing the transcript, make it searchable and reliable for citations: run OCR on the…
Before distributing the transcript, make it searchable and reliable for citations: run OCR on the [date=June 8] scan, correct obvious recognition errors in speaker names and timestamps, embed the searchable text layer, and export both a searchable PDF and a plain text file to the matter folder so counsel can search and copy quotations without re-OCRing.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Contract ManagerAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Run OCR On Transcriptalso: Make Deposition Searchable

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