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In-Place OCR Processing

Neil Pitman
Illustration: In-Place OCR Processing

By “in-place” processing we generally mean processing PDF documents that have already been added to a document repository or system and need to be turned into searchable PDFs in-place. By contrast “workflow” processing where documents pass through Autobahn DX on their way into a document repository via watched folders.

The job shown below will convert PDFs under the tree C:qat\221008\in to searchable PDFs, processing up to 1,000 files each time the job is run. Archive copies of the original files are placed in C:\qat\221008\arch.

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Neil Pitman Head of IT Business Solutions

Neil established Aquaforest (later acquired by Nutrient) in 2001 to provide high-performance PDF, OCR, and SharePoint products to a worldwide market.

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