For some reason, I have run into a problem when doing OCR on my documents in Acrobat 8. I don't think that it's an inherent problem with Acrobat 8 (Mac version) because I've been able to do OCR many times before without any problem. I think somehow I've engaged a preference setting or changed something inadvertently.
Here's what happens. When I run OCR everything proceeds normally until I look at the resulting file. For some reason, the margins of the original document have been shrunk to the point that text along the bottom (e.g. the page numbering and the last line of text) have disappeared. Obviously, this is not acceptable.
I plan to email the folks at Adobe to find out how to troubleshoot this problem, and when I have an answer to the problem I'll report back. Meanwhile, if anyone else has experienced this problem, or if anyone has a solution please leave a comment.
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Posted by: Jackson | October 17, 2010 at 05:51 AM