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Larry
Summary of problem: I have pdf files I created by scanning which are
vastly too large. Though I had "OCR to scan to text" checked when I did
the scanning, apparently the resulting files are NOT text but graphics,
and so they are huge. Is there any way to change these graphic pdf
files to text pdf files?
Now the details:
Using the Lexmark all-in-one scanner, I scanned several hundreds of
pages of xeroxed text pages into pdf. I was doing this for an associate
friend to whom I had promised this job some time ago. The Lexmark user
interface is highly confusing and contradictory, and the Help material
is useless.
I checked Advanced Scannng features, and in that page I checked "OCR to
scan to text" and "Multiple document scan" or something like that. I
had to have the latter feature checked; otherwise, after each page
scanned, the destination application, e.g. Adobe or Word, would open
with that one page in it, making it impossible to scan multiple pages
into a single file.
Back at the main scanning page, if I then checked "Black text" I would
automatically lose the Advanced features I checked above. So I did not
check "Black Text." Rather, I proceeded with "Advanced scanning"
checked (which included having OCR checked and multiple documents
checked, as explained above).
However, the result was an enormous pdf. file, so that, say, a pdf file
with 15 pages would be over 10 megabytes. A 100 page pdf was over 80
megabytes. Last night I e-mailed the person I was doing this for to
tell him how big these files were. At that point the job was not half
done. However, he did not get back to me until late today, after the
job was completely done to tell me that that size was unusable for him.
I can't see any other way I could have scanned this, given the options
the Lexmark user interface was offering me. Is there any way that I can
change the existing pdf files to characters so that they will become
much smaller?
Also, what did I miss? Was there some step for each created pdf file
where I was suppoed to press a button for "Use OCR to convert to text"
and I didn't do it? I wasn't offered any such option. I had checked
"OCR scan to text" before doing the job, so I assumed that that step was
done automatically.
Larry
vastly too large. Though I had "OCR to scan to text" checked when I did
the scanning, apparently the resulting files are NOT text but graphics,
and so they are huge. Is there any way to change these graphic pdf
files to text pdf files?
Now the details:
Using the Lexmark all-in-one scanner, I scanned several hundreds of
pages of xeroxed text pages into pdf. I was doing this for an associate
friend to whom I had promised this job some time ago. The Lexmark user
interface is highly confusing and contradictory, and the Help material
is useless.
I checked Advanced Scannng features, and in that page I checked "OCR to
scan to text" and "Multiple document scan" or something like that. I
had to have the latter feature checked; otherwise, after each page
scanned, the destination application, e.g. Adobe or Word, would open
with that one page in it, making it impossible to scan multiple pages
into a single file.
Back at the main scanning page, if I then checked "Black text" I would
automatically lose the Advanced features I checked above. So I did not
check "Black Text." Rather, I proceeded with "Advanced scanning"
checked (which included having OCR checked and multiple documents
checked, as explained above).
However, the result was an enormous pdf. file, so that, say, a pdf file
with 15 pages would be over 10 megabytes. A 100 page pdf was over 80
megabytes. Last night I e-mailed the person I was doing this for to
tell him how big these files were. At that point the job was not half
done. However, he did not get back to me until late today, after the
job was completely done to tell me that that size was unusable for him.
I can't see any other way I could have scanned this, given the options
the Lexmark user interface was offering me. Is there any way that I can
change the existing pdf files to characters so that they will become
much smaller?
Also, what did I miss? Was there some step for each created pdf file
where I was suppoed to press a button for "Use OCR to convert to text"
and I didn't do it? I wasn't offered any such option. I had checked
"OCR scan to text" before doing the job, so I assumed that that step was
done automatically.
Larry