Operation Manual

University of Arizona Information Commons Training 4

Perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to make the text searchable

If you selected Make Searchable (Run OCR) when you initially scanned your document (see

p.2), this step is not necessary. But if you have a scanned PDF text document that has not had

this done, you may wish to do this.

Performing OCR on the scanned text and makes the text selectable and searchable. The results

vary, depending on the quality of the original scanned pages. Often (but not always), the file

size is reduced as a result of OCR.

In the menu under Document, select OCR Text Recognition – Recognize Text using OCR. In

the Recognize Text window, select All Pages, or specific pages to be recognized, then click OK.

Bookmarks and Page Thumbnails

Bookmarks work the same as targets within a web page. They are useful if the document is

long and has several sections.

• Click on the Bookmarks tab on the left side of the screen to open the bookmark window

and begin creating bookmarks within the document.

• Scroll down in the document to where you want to create a bookmark, so that the

location to be bookmarked is at the top of the window.

• Click on the Create New Bookmark button. Add a name for the bookmark. Repeat for

additional bookmarks.

• To expand the current bookmark

and create a hierarchy, click on

Expand Current Bookmark.

• For additional bookmark options,

click on Options.

• To delete a bookmark, drag it to

the trash can.

Click on the Pages tab on the left side to view

thumbnails of pages. A thumbnail of each page of

the document should appear down the left side of the

screen. Page order in the document can be altered

by clicking and dragging thumbnails before or after

other thumbnails. Any page can be viewed in the

main document window by clicking on the thumbnail.

It may be useful to display thumbnails in a document

containing drawings or pictures.

Create new

bookmark

Expand

current

bookmark

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