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Online Guide Adobe® Acrobat® Capture Plug-In • Commands • Using the Capture plug-in • Capturing documents • Correcting captured documents • Setting Capture plug-in preferences • Troubleshooting
Online Guide Adobe® Acrobat® Capture Plug-In • Commands • Using the Capture plug-in • Capturing documents • Correcting captured documents • Setting Capture plug-in preferences • Troubleshooting
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... PDF documents produced by capturing text from them, see Setting Capture plug-in to other files. The plug-in Acrobat Exchange. For information about these PDF documents, and about the kinds of eight languages, hide recognized text behind a document image, and downsample images to text that were scanned directly, or imported, into Acrobat. For more information, see About PDF document styles. After you capture a document, you choose the Capture Pages command in uses...
... PDF documents produced by capturing text from them, see Setting Capture plug-in to other files. The plug-in Acrobat Exchange. For information about these PDF documents, and about the kinds of eight languages, hide recognized text behind a document image, and downsample images to text that were scanned directly, or imported, into Acrobat. For more information, see About PDF document styles. After you capture a document, you choose the Capture Pages command in uses...
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Use the Capture plug-in is installed from Acrobat Exchange. If you need to convert large collections of paper documents or electronic images to PDF, consider upgrading to the full Acrobat Capture product, which offers a number of paper documents and electronic images to convert small collections of automated processing features and enhanced reviewing capabilities. For details on running the Acrobat Installer, see the Acrobat Getting Started Guide. The Capture plug-in to PDF directly from the Acrobat 3.0 CD-ROM.
Use the Capture plug-in is installed from Acrobat Exchange. If you need to convert large collections of paper documents or electronic images to PDF, consider upgrading to the full Acrobat Capture product, which offers a number of paper documents and electronic images to convert small collections of automated processing features and enhanced reviewing capabilities. For details on running the Acrobat Installer, see the Acrobat Getting Started Guide. The Capture plug-in to PDF directly from the Acrobat 3.0 CD-ROM.
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... of PDF documents: • PDF Image Only documents contain only a bitmap picture of file with Acrobat Distiller, PDF Writer, or the Capture Pages command in Exchange. About PDF document styles Adobe Acrobat can create this kind of the original document. PDF Normal files are produced by the Scan and the Import commands in Exchange. PDF Image Only files are significantly smaller than their PDF Image Only counterparts, making them...
... of PDF documents: • PDF Image Only documents contain only a bitmap picture of file with Acrobat Distiller, PDF Writer, or the Capture Pages command in Exchange. About PDF document styles Adobe Acrobat can create this kind of the original document. PDF Normal files are produced by the Scan and the Import commands in Exchange. PDF Image Only files are significantly smaller than their PDF Image Only counterparts, making them...
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... Hidden Text documents combine features of PDF file when you capture a PDF Image Only file, it usually reduces file size significantly. When you are smaller than those captured with the PDF Original Image with the Capture Pages command in appearance to keep the original scanned image of a document for legal or archival purposes. Use this kind of PDF Image Only and PDF Normal documents...
... Hidden Text documents combine features of PDF file when you capture a PDF Image Only file, it usually reduces file size significantly. When you are smaller than those captured with the PDF Original Image with the Capture Pages command in appearance to keep the original scanned image of a document for legal or archival purposes. Use this kind of PDF Image Only and PDF Normal documents...
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PDF Image Only files. Choose a scanner device and document type; Capturing documents The documents you capture are image files that you want to capture by selecting All Pages, Current Page, or Specified Range and entering the page numbers in the text box. See Acrobat Scan for more information on using a scanner with Acrobat Exchange. 2 Choose Document > Capture Pages. 3 Determine which pages you have scanned or imported into Exchange- To...
PDF Image Only files. Choose a scanner device and document type; Capturing documents The documents you capture are image files that you want to capture by selecting All Pages, Current Page, or Specified Range and entering the page numbers in the text box. See Acrobat Scan for more information on using a scanner with Acrobat Exchange. 2 Choose Document > Capture Pages. 3 Determine which pages you have scanned or imported into Exchange- To...
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... Setting Capture plug-in preferences for the process to change the Capture preferences, click Preferences. Text on a dark or shaded background, or on a page with the new settings. In order for details. 5 Click OK. The document will be captured with complex color gradients, may not be dark against a light background. 4 If you want to be successful, the resolution of the captured PDF Image...
... Setting Capture plug-in preferences for the process to change the Capture preferences, click Preferences. Text on a dark or shaded background, or on a page with the new settings. In order for details. 5 Click OK. The document will be captured with complex color gradients, may not be dark against a light background. 4 If you want to be successful, the resolution of the captured PDF Image...
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... Capture plug-in uses the current PDF Writer settings for font embedding and subsetting when it displays the bitmap image of the original, even without correction. To avoid problems when correcting a captured document, be fully searchable, for example, when indexing it for more information. Correcting captured documents When the Capture plug-in suspects it has not recognized a word correctly, it creates PDF files. You can review...
... Capture plug-in uses the current PDF Writer settings for font embedding and subsetting when it displays the bitmap image of the original, even without correction. To avoid problems when correcting a captured document, be fully searchable, for example, when indexing it for more information. Correcting captured documents When the Capture plug-in suspects it has not recognized a word correctly, it creates PDF files. You can review...
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... Next (Shift+TAB). • To edit the highlighted suspect text, type the correct text; The text is changed, and the bitmap image is discarded. The bitmap image is discarded. • To leave the bitmap image in the Suspect Image window. 2 Choose from one of the suspect words in a document: Choose Edit > Show Capture Suspects. then click Accept (TAB). To review and correct suspect words: 1 Choose...
... Next (Shift+TAB). • To edit the highlighted suspect text, type the correct text; The text is changed, and the bitmap image is discarded. The bitmap image is discarded. • To leave the bitmap image in the Suspect Image window. 2 Choose from one of the suspect words in a document: Choose Edit > Show Capture Suspects. then click Accept (TAB). To review and correct suspect words: 1 Choose...
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Two options are captured.The Capture plug-in creates. See About PDF document styles for details. Setting Capture plug-in preferences Choose File > Preferences > Capture to control the following Capture plug-in preferences: • Primary OCR Language indicates which language dictionary is used to the custom dictionary. • PDF Output Style specifies what kind of PDF document the Capture plug-in also uses a custom dictionary, which you can modify. For...
Two options are captured.The Capture plug-in creates. See About PDF document styles for details. Setting Capture plug-in preferences Choose File > Preferences > Capture to control the following Capture plug-in preferences: • Primary OCR Language indicates which language dictionary is used to the custom dictionary. • PDF Output Style specifies what kind of PDF document the Capture plug-in also uses a custom dictionary, which you can modify. For...
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See Choosing downsampling options for details. • Location for Temporary Files specifies the directory where temporary files are running out of downsampling images in the specified directory, you can be useful if you want to minimize file size. If you are stored during the capture process. • Downsample Images gives you the option of space in captured PDF documents, which can change the location by typing a new directory path.
See Choosing downsampling options for details. • Location for Temporary Files specifies the directory where temporary files are running out of downsampling images in the specified directory, you can be useful if you want to minimize file size. If you are stored during the capture process. • Downsample Images gives you the option of space in captured PDF documents, which can change the location by typing a new directory path.
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...;le as a text file. 2 On a separate line, type each word you use a word processor, open the custdict.spl file in the Acrobat3\Capture directory. You can add words to add. If you want to this custom dictionary by editing the dictionary file. To edit the custom dictionary (Windows): 1 Using a text editor such as Notepad, or a word processor, open the file as a text file.
...;le as a text file. 2 On a separate line, type each word you use a word processor, open the custdict.spl file in the Acrobat3\Capture directory. You can add words to add. If you want to this custom dictionary by editing the dictionary file. To edit the custom dictionary (Windows): 1 Using a text editor such as Notepad, or a word processor, open the file as a text file.
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... file size. Choosing downsampling options When you capture a document, you will not be able to reprocess the resulting files with Capture. Doing this can choose to 150 dpi (Images less than 225 dpi are not downsampled) Note: When both the PDF Original Image + Text and downsampling options are selected, color and grayscale page images are downsampled to downsample images in the captured document.
... file size. Choosing downsampling options When you capture a document, you will not be able to reprocess the resulting files with Capture. Doing this can choose to 150 dpi (Images less than 225 dpi are not downsampled) Note: When both the PDF Original Image + Text and downsampling options are selected, color and grayscale page images are downsampled to downsample images in the captured document.
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To turn downsampling on or off: 1 Choose File > Preferences > Capture or Document > Capture Pages, and click the Preferences button. 2 Select or deselect the Downsample Images option as desired. (Downsampling is on by default.) Note: The Downsampling Images setting in Capture Preferences overrides the downsampling setting in PDF Writer.
To turn downsampling on or off: 1 Choose File > Preferences > Capture or Document > Capture Pages, and click the Preferences button. 2 Select or deselect the Downsample Images option as desired. (Downsampling is on by default.) Note: The Downsampling Images setting in Capture Preferences overrides the downsampling setting in PDF Writer.
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... capture, send over networks, and display on the following pages show the file sizes resulting from the import and capture of an 8 1/2-by-11 inch page containing text, line art, and a photograph.These charts show how the PDF Output Style you cannot change PDF Writer compression settings to create PDF files, but you choose can effect the size of captured files. Comparing PDF file...
... capture, send over networks, and display on the following pages show the file sizes resulting from the import and capture of an 8 1/2-by-11 inch page containing text, line art, and a photograph.These charts show how the PDF Output Style you cannot change PDF Writer compression settings to create PDF files, but you choose can effect the size of captured files. Comparing PDF file...
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Image type Scanned at 300 dpi Black and white 4-bit grayscale 8-bit grayscale 8-bit indexed color 24-bit RGB color TIFF image file (original file) uncompressed compressed 1043K LZW 190K Group 4 201K 8335K LZW 606K 8333K LZW 1343K 8335K LZW 796K 24998K LZW 3085K PDF Image Only PDF Normal PDF Original Image + Hidden Text 202K 61K 94K 421K 1183K 612K 2531K 222K 113K 364K 500K 325K 309K 477K 616K Captured file sizes: downsampling on In most cases, the size of a captured file is significantly reduced when downsampling is turned on in the Capture preferences.
Image type Scanned at 300 dpi Black and white 4-bit grayscale 8-bit grayscale 8-bit indexed color 24-bit RGB color TIFF image file (original file) uncompressed compressed 1043K LZW 190K Group 4 201K 8335K LZW 606K 8333K LZW 1343K 8335K LZW 796K 24998K LZW 3085K PDF Image Only PDF Normal PDF Original Image + Hidden Text 202K 61K 94K 421K 1183K 612K 2531K 222K 113K 364K 500K 325K 309K 477K 616K Captured file sizes: downsampling on In most cases, the size of a captured file is significantly reduced when downsampling is turned on in the Capture preferences.
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... this chart was processed with downsampling turned off in uses additional compression methods. In some cases, a PDF Original Image + Hidden Text file is smaller than the PDF Image only file because the Capture plug-in the Capture preferences. (Turning downsampling on could reduce the file size even more). Image type Scanned at 300 dpi TIFF image file uncompressed compressed Black and white...
... this chart was processed with downsampling turned off in uses additional compression methods. In some cases, a PDF Original Image + Hidden Text file is smaller than the PDF Image only file because the Capture plug-in the Capture preferences. (Turning downsampling on could reduce the file size even more). Image type Scanned at 300 dpi TIFF image file uncompressed compressed Black and white...
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... owners. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd. Patent 4,558,302. The content of the software. Adobe Systems Incorporated assumes no part of this manual is furnished for any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without notice, and should read carefully before commencing use only, is a registered trademark in accordance with the End User License Agreement, which the Licensee...
... owners. and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd. Patent 4,558,302. The content of the software. Adobe Systems Incorporated assumes no part of this manual is furnished for any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without notice, and should read carefully before commencing use only, is a registered trademark in accordance with the End User License Agreement, which the Licensee...
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...Adobe's standard commercial agreement for this software. Use, reproduction, or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110-2704. Use...United States. (9/96) The address of embodied programs and databases prohibited. ©1994 This software includes software licensed from RSA Data Security, Inc. Adobe Systems Europe Limited, Adobe House, 5 Mid New Cultins, Edinburgh EH11 4DU, Scotland, United Kingdom Adobe Systems Co., Ltd., Yebisu ...
...Adobe's standard commercial agreement for this software. Use, reproduction, or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraph (c)(1)(ii) of the commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110-2704. Use...United States. (9/96) The address of embodied programs and databases prohibited. ©1994 This software includes software licensed from RSA Data Security, Inc. Adobe Systems Europe Limited, Adobe House, 5 Mid New Cultins, Edinburgh EH11 4DU, Scotland, United Kingdom Adobe Systems Co., Ltd., Yebisu ...
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If you are and you still can 't perform step 2, you can 't perform the step, install the Adobe printer driver on the Acrobat CD-ROM. Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh). See the Acrobat Getting Started guide for installation instructions. 3 Choose File > Print. 4 Indicate the page range. • On a Macintosh, choose 2 Up from the Layout menu and click OK. Note: If you may not be using an Adobe or PostScript printer driver.
If you are and you still can 't perform step 2, you can 't perform the step, install the Adobe printer driver on the Acrobat CD-ROM. Click OK (Windows) or Print (Macintosh). See the Acrobat Getting Started guide for installation instructions. 3 Choose File > Print. 4 Indicate the page range. • On a Macintosh, choose 2 Up from the Layout menu and click OK. Note: If you may not be using an Adobe or PostScript printer driver.