OCR software that will scan 1000 docs automatically?

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I have around 1000 PDFs in a series of subfolders. The PDFs are a mix
of text and image-only PDFs.

I would like an OCR program that
a) can be set to automatically look at each and all PDFs in a folder,
including subfolders, to determine if the PDF is image-only text;

b) does OCR on image-only PDFs only; and

c) overwrites the image-only PDF with an image-on-text PDF

Can anyone recommend an OCR program that can do this?

I am running Win XP on a medium-spec machine.

Thanks in advance
Matt

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You might also want to look at PaperPort from Scansoft. (Google it.)

Unlike, it seems, bookscanning, PaperPort is a DIY option.

MK





On 5 Aug 2005 09:42:38 -0700, "Thomas" <newstjc@gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>www.bookscanning.com does converting jobs like pdf file into word files
>etc. Check it out here at:
>
>www.bookscanning.com
>
>Thomas
>mattb02@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have around 1000 PDFs in a series of subfolders. The PDFs are a mix
>> of text and image-only PDFs.
>>
>> I would like an OCR program that
>> a) can be set to automatically look at each and all PDFs in a folder,
>> including subfolders, to determine if the PDF is image-only text;
>>
>> b) does OCR on image-only PDFs only; and
>>
>> c) overwrites the image-only PDF with an image-on-text PDF
>>
>> Can anyone recommend an OCR program that can do this?
>>
>> I am running Win XP on a medium-spec machine.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Matt