*quick PDF question*

[ILoveKnowledge]

Hello all....for my classes I converted the pages into printed PDF pages so I can have the book as an ebook but when I try to do OCR recognition within PDF it says "Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because: This page has graphics other than images or text on it. It cannot be captured"

To go around this; I want to do a "fake scan" or scan it from the PDF files themselves rather than scan the pages on an actual scanner (since I have the files already on PDF on my computer) so I can then do the OCR text recognition. Does anyone know a way to do this?

Thanks for your help in advance!

 

[whs]

What are you actually trying to accomplish. What you are trying to do sounds rather strange. What is wrong with keeping the .pdf format.

 

[ILoveKnowledge]

I want to have OCR text recognition! It won't let me do OCR text recognition with the current format. I paid for the ebook via the publisher's site but the publisher doesn't have it as PDF (makes you go on the website to view the book) but I want to have a PDF copy of it to work with it offline away from the publisher website (so I can do custom highlighting etc.) on my own copy of the PDF. That is why I want to do a simulation scan so hopefully the error will go away and then I can do OCR text recognition on it.

 

[whs]

Would it not be easier to store it with a program like doPDF ( PDF Creator - Convert to PDF free with doPDF ).