Acrobat 9 crashes on OCR

[Sherard]

Hi,

Using Acrobat 9 on three stations and Acrobat 8 on one station. Acrobat 9 has failed to complete a batch OCR on ANY station while Adobe 8 has yet to fail, and it has done several large batches.
Any help yet? I have 60,000 pages to OCR.

Any help please

[Mac rumor]

Acrobat is a low volume tool, not at all the tool for a half million pages.

Adobe sell Capture 3.0, a high volume OCR with reviewer (the quality of the reviewer will make a difference of man years in the project). Prices vary according to page count limits - you would need the high end one. But this is very old too, there may be more suitable products. Certainly, for this size of project, it's well worth searching widely. Also be aware that there are specialist service providers who do this sort of thing.

[Abedin]

Rather than breaking the PDF into smaller files, run OCR until it crashes, note the page, then run OCR up to the page before the crash. Then run OCR again starting the page AFTER the crash.

At least you'll have the PDF doc in one piece, even though certain pages in the doc won't have been OCR'd.

Then you can insert re-scanned pages into the appropriate spot.