OCR Batchprocessing

[Pascal.K]

Hi @ all,

We are currently looking for a solution to automatically run PDF documents through OCR and save the text in a separate file.
Since we use PDF Xchange Editor and PDFXChange Pro, we would like to use them to automatically check a defined folder for PDFs and then process them as soon as a new document arrives and write the recognized text to a WORD, txt, or CSV file.

Is there any chance to do this?

I thought there must be a command line switch like /ocr or something else, but it didn`t seems so.

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi Pascal, if you have a license for PDF-XChange PRO - that includes PDF-Tools and you can use the folder monitors for that purpose:

https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt10/fo ... ors_t.html

Kind regards,

[Pascal.K]

Many thanks to your quick answer.

I`ve checked the PDF Tools, but i`m only able to export to txt file.
It would be great to export the OCR Results as a csv.

Is there any chance to review the OCR Processed File and export only specific Columns?

[Sean - PDF-XChange]

Hi Pascal,

I'm afraid PDF to CSV is not possible, and it's also not possible to review the processed OCR file and export specific columns.

Kind regards,