Women in Technology

Article:		Acrobat to a Paperless Office
Subject:		Paper Capture encoding
Date:		2004-09-15 06:42:01
From:		Andreas_Bachofen
Nice article. But Acrobat Paper Capture produces strange characters when processing a german written document with umlauts. I cannot figure it out how to avoid this.

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• Paper Capture encoding
  2004-09-15 12:58:56  jstarr [View]
  
  
  I have not tried the OCR capabilites within Acrobat on any language other than English. However, I did run across this little note in Acrobat 6 Help.
  
  "To convert scanned pages to searchable text:
  1. Open the file you want to capture, and choose Document > Paper Capture > Start Capture ...
  3. Under Settings, click the Edit button if you want to change the primary optical character recognition (OCR) language ...
  Note: The primary OCR language menu is available only if you perform a custom installation and choose Roman Paper Capture."
  
  If you're already doing this, you might want to let Adobe know their OCR of German leaves a bit to be desired!
• Paper Capture encoding
  2004-09-15 23:31:17  Andreas_Bachofen [View]
  
  
  Thanks, I did this already. I was in the Adobe forums, too, and it is a bug that seems to exist as long as the PaperCapture-Plugin exists...