PDF XChange Forum

PHK

TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:13 pm ...

If you are planning to manipulate the pages extensively like this
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That's me. Thanks for the confirmation!

PHK

Thank you on both points.

My take-away on the Bookmarks destinations issue when I am bookmarking before cropping or resizing is that I should create Named Destinations from the Bookmarks to preserve the destinations. Right?

PHK

OK, I get what you're saying. I thought it was describing the parts of the page that were to be eliminated. But so be it, I can cope.

The "greyed-out" was referring to the parts of the page to be eliminated.

PHK

I would very much appreciate this functionality. I've been too bashful to ask for it before.

PHK

The choices for cropping margins as they relate to cropping unwanted white spaces seems to be exactly reversed when selecting either horizontal or vertical.

Horizontal selected and vertical greyed-out.

Vertical selected and horizontal greyed-out.

PHK

Thank you very much for the fulsome answer. Yes, it is a generic inquiry and I do not have a specific file in mind. But there are some other areas that you did not touch on that I would like to pursue. For instance, in Crop Pages the User has the option to remove content outside the box but I do not...

PHK

.... those screenshots are from the Editor... Well, yes it may be in Editor now. But the first reference I spotted was in Tools documentation. ... text control is a fairly new addition to the software... Yeah, no kidding. I certainly missed its addition or significance. I had established a hot-key ...

PHK

Thank you, Daniel. Your screenshots seem to be from PDF-Tools V.10 where the "Actions with Objects" appears. Certainly, the online Help resource does not show the presence of those options in Editor. image.png But, thankfully, I do have those options in my app so I will begin trying to see...

PHK

What are the differences between the Resize Pages Tool and the Crop Pages Tool?

I mean, at the technical level, such as what happens to page content? What about link destinations? What about layers, accessible and not?

PHK

TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:35 pm Hello, PHK

How does this version of the file match your needs?
raster-then-searchable-OCR.pdf
Is there anything missing, or extraneous you see here?

Kind regards,

That looks great!

So, what am I doing wrong and/or what are you doing right? This MAJOR for me.

PHK

Sorry, the file did not seem to attach.

20240408141053810_23-939 bsac CREW Final Copy XCE.pdf: (503.38 KiB) Downloaded 5 times

PHK

20240408141053810_23-939 bsac CREW Final Copy XCE.pdf ... Are you using the Enhanced OCR engine or the Tesseract one (Standard) - the Standard will have less options than the Enhanced one. Enhanced. And if your approach is giving you the results you need - shall we consider this topic resolved or i...

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... I suppose it would work, but you have a few unnecessary extra steps. Well, it works best for me. I want EXACTLY the same Image layer in Content. See the comparison below. Your process could be as simple as 1. rasterize pages (with the option to flatten all text content enabled) I don't see this...

PHK

I think, Daniel, buried in your response above is the answer to the original question. And that key word is "rasterize." Therefore, if I * rasterize the page before I OCR it, * copy the created image entry in the Content panel, * EOCR with the third Output Option selected, * paste the imag...

PHK

Is there a way to bulk-select invisible content for deletion?

PHK

Having said all of the above, I now find that my problem is not exactly solved. I want an OCR result that has text content perfectly alligned with the visible image completely unchanged. None of the Output Options in EOCR seem to achieve that. Here is an example. It is a large sheet (approximately 1...

PHK

Thank you, Daniel. You are exactly right. As the app evolved, I must have missed the significance of the introduction on EOCR and was basically ignoring the additional modes. So yes, I was using OCR in Searchable image mode rather than Editable text. Without delving into how these different modes fu...

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... what kind of "residue" are you referring to? ... Hi, Paul. I am referring to ghost content. Earlier today, I downloaded five pages that I wanted to merge into one vertical page but I wanted to strip out redundant headers and footers. To do that, I split the page above the footers and ...

PHK

Is there a way to clear OCR results so that a new fresh start OCR session can be executed without residue from previous sessions?

PHK

Many thanks for chasing this down, Paul. No problem on the ETA, we Users are a patient lot.

PHK

... I have the impression that the dimension of the bounding box is applied to all the selected pages. So, each page will NOT have its own cropping specs... Yeah, so it seems. I don't really get the logic of having ENTER proceed to next page and, unlike any other Tool I can think of, NOT complete t...

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... I am only able to reproduce the problem when only one page is selected to run the Crop Pages tool on. - First I select one page via "Current" or "Custom" (the "OK" button is greyed out) - Then I redraw the bounding box (the "OK" button becomes available) ...

PHK

... Just as a note to the Tracker team: I am experiencing the aforementioned delay times when listing or copying/cutting links not only in the particular file mentioned there, but to varying degrees in all (at least somewhat more complex) files, depending on file size and on the number of links and...

PHK

Many thanks, Daniel.

PHK

... A video or a Gif of the process you take would still be quite helpful for trying to identify exactly what you are doing differently. When you press enter a few times and nothing happens, simply give us a small flourish of the mouse and click the ok button before ending the recording. OK, when I...

PHK

Hi, PHK when I do it on a multi-page PDF the Enter key is sending me to the next page in the Print Preview. If the last thing I adjusted was the bounding box that is what I see. If the last thing I changed was an option to the side of the preview then the Enter key works for me. I am not sure if th...

PHK

I don't see the point of creating a 'movie' because nothing happens so there is nothing to see. That is because when I hit the keyboard enter key there is no visible change. Further, I see when I try to do this on a one-page document it functions just fine. But if I do it in multi-page document the ...

PHK

I don't think I have to send you a file as it is so easy to replicate. Create a new document in Portrait mode, use the Resize Pages Tool and change the width value to 17" (double standard Letter) with Orientation set to Keep existing... image.png Click on OK, and this is what I get. The height ...

PHK

When I complete setting up a page-cropping session in the pop-up box, clicking on "OK" works fine. But nothing happens when I hit the "Enter" key on my keyboard. This seems to be unique to this Tool. Others like Merge Pages, Split Pages, Move Pages, on and on, all respond to &quo...

PHK

So, it does not recognize the existing orientation (portrait); the User must select?

I suppose that redefines the bug as the "Keep existing" Orientation option is not functioning properly.

PHK

When trying to change the size of a page in the Resize Pages Tool selecting the Custom Page Size option, I get weird results. Say I have a Letter-Sized page with some content on it (although it functions the same for blank pages) and I want to double the width, i. e., creating a page that is 17"...

PHK

For what it's worth, I use a Wacom Intuos Pro touchpad, mostly in stylus-only mode, and I haven't had much to complain about.

PHK

Or use the Quick launch box at the upper right of the app window and type in "combine."

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And, if you use it a lot, add the Tool to the Toolbar.

PHK

... Since update of the PDF-XChange Editor to a new version (10.0.1, build 371) You might want to update the app to the latest version 10.2.1 build 385 ... Situation: I have opened one main pdf document and many other pdf files, which I want to add... Using function "insert pages" the dia...

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... I learned that this is dependent on the application that sends the print job. Not all applications will send the path. AutoCAD does, Word does not for example. If the path is available we use it in the %[DocPath] macro. If we look for it and what we get is a blank, then there is no way for us t...

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Yes, you are right, Daniel. Clicking on the page number, even if there is only one page in the document, produces the correct view of the sheet. I had been ignoring the Page column altogether because everything was on one "Page," and I wrongly thought it was irrelevant. Thank you, Daniel.

PHK

Thanks for the clarifications. Then, it seems to me, the real issue is whether there is an option for the source folder being "automtically" or by default selected as the path destination. After all, it is obvious that if the source folder is selected as the destination folder by the user ...

PHK

... you can click on the page link directly to jump to the page the link exists on, instead of selecting another and then clicking back. ... That doesn't exactly work for me. This is because I am often working on wall-sized sheets, or canvasses, of many, many merged 'pages'. Therefore, I need to go...

PHK

@Daniel: Thanks for reminding me of the image-capture option which I never ever use as I 'always' want the vector objects retained. To me, the few additional steps are worth it. I suppose it all hinges on what the User is trying achieve.

PHK

Willy, I assume that your subject document is NOT in your "Willy" folder so that is not exactly the same as what Paul was describing. ... Now I played with this a little more I see it isn't working as I thought. I am not actually able to force it to use the source folder. ... But it doesn'...

PHK

@Willy: Hmmm, what happens if you uncheck the Save As box?

PHK

I do not think I fully understand what OP is trying to do but he is only trying to move the image of the area of concerns with the visible comments in flattened mode the following might be a workaround that is not too difficult. +Use the Snapshot Tool. You do not need to flatten, just select the are...

PHK

It has been a while since the last discussion on this subject and I would still like a one-step reciprocal link tool but it has finally occured to me that there is a simple workaround for, at least, toggling back and forth between the two ends of the action if they are both on the same page: keep th...

PHK

@Paul: Here's another thought.

PHK

It might be security issue on your network.

I am not on a network.

PHK

I don't think that's it because I am optioned exactly the same way.

PHK

... Now I played with this a little more I see it isn't working as I thought. I am not actually able to force it to use the source folder. I am going to chat with the devs after Easter about this to see if it is the software or me... ;) It cannot possibly be you... HOWEVER, I have no problem printi...

PHK

I don't understand why this should be a problem unless you are trying to save the printed PDF with the same name as the source file. When I print to PDF, a new version is created and the Printing Progress is paused after a bit of processing and this image.png appears at the bottom of my screen. If I...

PHK

Hi, again, well the required dev happened to be near and I asked. I am told that it would not be simple. As it was explained to me the content you see on the page can in reality be all over the place internally and it was suggested the results would not be useful. A lot of magic goes on under the h...

PHK

Looking forward to what they say...

Thank you.

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