searchable pdfs

Doculex?

I'm not sure about doculex. If I use doculex to create a pdf+text can I then copy that document to CD and someone search that CD using only acrobat reader or do they also have to have doculex?

Thanks!

Our vFILER product will create searchable PDF's. Give me a call. See attachment.

Steve Breault
VircoSoft Corp.
(703) 385-0101

Deanw, you are right that the pdfs created by scanning are not searchable. Scans, even pdfs, are actually images. To create a searchable pdf, the font has to be embedded in the pdf which obviously you can't do from a piece of paper. That said, there are OCR applications that can convert the shapes in the image to text. We sell quite a bit of PaperPort and OmniPage, which is an excellent OCR app.

PaperPort Professional version has a built-in OCR for searching image files. From their web site: "Search for Information Locked in Scanned, Image and PDF files.
PaperPort's All-in-One Search will actually "read" all your files with the built-in OmniPage Search Indexer so you can search for a word contained INSIDE any document including scanned paper."

See http://www.nuance.com/paperport/professional/features.asp#turn

We find PaperPort and OmniPage to be pretty easy to use and easy to teach to our clients, and their rep has been very helpful.

I don't know about the CD factor; we haven't had that question come up.

As long as you OCR the documents before you burn to disk, you can search with acrobat reader. Also, make sure you save the resulting documents as pdf's. You can use Doculex, Omnipage, or even Acrobat Pro to capture(OCR) the pages. The cost is about the same for any of them.

Look at eCopy Desktop Software....

The Canon MFPs can create serachable (enhanced) PDFs from the copier. (Just FYI).