<div dir="ltr"><div>Additional information....</div><div><br></div><div>I talked to the user and got some history...</div><div><br></div><div>The user scanned in legal documents. Saved the images as pages in a PDF. That is why I can't search on keywords for most of the files. A few files were typed up and then exported as PDF. most are images of the pages. That means that OCR has to be part of the solution.</div><div><br></div><div>I discovered that Adobe Acobat Reader has a setting to search all PDFs in a directory for keywords. The problem is that these files don't contain text. They contain images of text. Adobe can't search images and find keywords.</div><div><br></div><div>Laura Brody<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 8:03 PM Laura Brody <<a href="mailto:laura.k.brody@gmail.com">laura.k.brody@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am hoping that one of you has solved this problem before.....</div><div><br></div><div>I have over a thousand pages of text in a dozen or so PDF files. Most files are "read-only" and I can not do Ctrl-F to search for keywords. I would like to be able to OCR the files and put everything into one file that is searchable. Or is there a utility that will search all of the PDFs in a directory for a keyword? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Suggestions anyone?</div><div><br></div><div>Laura Brody<br></div></div>
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