[blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR

[Singh, Nandini]

I am not sure what program you have now, but I use Omni Page by Nuance, and I can convert 10-30 documents from PDF to Word or text depending on the size all in one go. I have tried to do more documents, but that really slows down things. While the conversion  is running in the background, I can still check email, review other documents, etc.

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Subject: [blindlaw] Batch Recognition of OCR

Hello all. I am looking for a program that will monitor a given folder for new PDF files and convert inaccessible PDF files to accessible PDF (PDF/a) or Microsoft Word files. Does anyone know of a program that can do this type of automated batch OCR conversion? Right now, I have to initiate the OCR process with a command for each document and rename the new document to the same filename as the original PDF with a .docx estension. This is not an efficient use of my time. Thanks.


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