many PDF-Files convert with OCR with little click

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michael steinel
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many PDF-Files convert with OCR with little click

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I have a folder with many PDF files without OCR.
Can I choose with all PDF-Files with PDF-Tools and convert in PDF with OCR?
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Hi Michael,

Thanks for the post - there isn't currently any way to OCR multiple PDF files at once, using our software. We are looking at adding this option, but for now I don't have any information available as to when this could/will be implemented.

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Re: many PDF-Files convert with OCR with little click

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Hi,
I see that the last post of this topic is at March 10.
I also have a lot of PDF files (>100) that have to be convert in PDF with OCR.

Is there any update on this one?
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Hello MikaBalou,

Welcome to our forums.
It's still not possible to OCR batches of PDF files with our end user products, but the OCR is here and can be used.

The quickest I can think of is for you to merge all those files into a single PDF, then run OCR on it, and then split them back to separate files.
If they are all e.g. 1 page documents you can easily split them back via the "Document -> Extract pages" feature in the Editor, and selecting "each page to a separate file" in the options.

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Hello:

i also hope, that a batch OCR feature is included in the future. It would be very helpful for us, too.

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Hello Thomas,

Thanks for adding your voice to this!

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Re: many PDF-Files convert with OCR with little click

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Hi

Please add one more vore for this. I have just scanned >3000 documents, and skipped the OCR for reasons of efficiency in the process. Now I would like to make a batch conversion of these documents. To make the function really useful, you might consider implementing traversal of a folder structure to update all pdf's with a text layer.

Regards, & thanks for a well thought and well functioning product,
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Hello Mads,

Thanks for the kind words and for adding your voice here. We do have this feature in mind now, and will see what can be done for it.

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Re: many PDF-Files convert with OCR with little click

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Has there been any progress with providing a batch processing option?

I have around 600 pdfs that I need to make searchable
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Hello MymsMan,

Thank you for the post. This was added in PDF-Tools 6. Please look in the 'Pages' category. If you have not installed PDF Tools you can do so here: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFTools6.zip

I hope this helps!
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Patrick-Tracker Supp wrote:Hello MymsMan,

Thank you for the post. This was added in PDF-Tools 6. Please look in the 'Pages' category. If you have not installed PDF Tools you can do so here: https://www.pdf-xchange.com/PDFTools6.zip

I hope this helps!
Thanks for the info, giving it a try
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