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Exporting as searchable PDF
Felix Sonntag
posted this on Jan 25 23:54
Is there any possibility to export your notes as a searchable pdf. The Livescribe Desktop software has a great text recognition, why don't use it usefull.
PS: I am not sure, if I am in the right forum, sorry.
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Hi,
Adobe would have to integrate that into their program. Once the export is done it is up to the program being used to provide that feature.
Thank you,
Jeff
Thanks for the answer. Although it isn't the kind of answer I wanted to hear. So let's hope Adobe will bring us this feature.
The answer is wrong though. The mapping between hand written text and OCR needs to be done during the OCR process - otherwise the mapping will be lost. In this case, the mapping would need to be done in the MyScript application - and from there it would need to be sent back to Livescribe Desktop before it could be exported into a searchable pencast PDF. A dedicated programmer could do it, no doubt. But I do not know at what cost, in hours.
The Fujitsu Scansnap scanners perform OCR and output searchable PDFs. On the mac these are easily indexed by spot light. I think it uses ABBYY software to create the searchable PDF. Would be good if this did similar.