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Portable file documents (PDF) are files that contain text and graphics that have been scanned into Adobe Acrobat Exchange. Acrobat Exchange can do Optical Character Recognition so that a scanned image of text is converted into editable text.

Creating PDF documents

1. To create a PDF document place the text on a scanner.
2. open Acrobat Exchange and choose File/Scan.
3. Select a scanner and click on the scan button
4. From the deskscan settings choose B. and W. Drawing and a path that has a resolution between 300 and 600 dpi.
5. Click the final button.
6. Choose Document > Capture Pages to perform OCR. Choose Edit > Show Capture Suspect to see possible errors. Choose Document > Save to save as a pdf file (see tuturial below).

 

Download the following files:

Macintosh | Windows


midd_points_17-15.PDF
1. Open the .pdf file you have just downloaded (midd_points_17-15.PDF)

 

 

2. Choose Document > Capture Pages. Acrobat Exchange will scan through the document and attempt to recognize the text images and convert it into actual editable text.

 

  3. Choose Edit > Show Capture Suspect. Acrobat Exchange highlights all the text it could not recognize.

 

  4. Choose Edit > Find First Suspect. Here Acrobat Exchange will find the first section of text that it did not reliably recognize. If the image in the Capture Suspect box appears to be correct in the red box then click on the Accept button. If it appears incorrect, then place the cursor in the red box and type the correct letters or choose Next to skip it.

 

Use the Link Tool to create links to other PDF files or to web pages.

5. Click on the link tool from the menu icons.
6. Drag a rectangle around Tom Beyer.
7. From the pop up menu choose an action of the type World Wide Web Link.
8. Click the edit URL button and type in the following URL : http://www.middlebury.edu/

 

9. Select the Hand Tool, move it over Tom Beyer and click to go to his web page.

 

  10. Choose Document > Save to save the document as a .pdf file.

 

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