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Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line

What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a visual recognition process that turns printed or written text into an electronic character-based file. A document that is scanned and converted into a PDF document provides the basis for which character recognition software may interpret each character image on the PDF and assign it an electronic character-based file that can then be entered into an editable format, such as a Text or Word document.

Given the proliferation of scan-to-PDF technology available today, VeryPDF's OCR solutions focus on the conversion of scanned PDF documents and image files. The quality of the OCR conversion process will largely depend on the quality of the scanned image and the clarity of the characters of that image.

VeryPDF's Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter is a Command Line application uses Optical Character Recognition technology to OCR scanned PDF documents and images (TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG, PCX, TGA, etc.) to ASCII files.

The default package of Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line includes support for only English. However you can download more OCR language packs at here.

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What is ASCII?

ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a widely used standard for encoding text documents on computers. Usually, a file described as "ASCII" does not contain any special embedded control characters; you can view the contents of the file, change it with an editor, or print it with a printer. In ASCII, every letter, number, and punctuation symbol has a corresponding number, or ASCII code. For example, the character for the number 1 has the code 49, capital letter A has the code 65, and a blank space has the code 32.

What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a visual recognition process that turns printed or written text into an electronic character-based file. A document that is scanned and converted into a PDF document provides the basis for which character recognition software may interpret each character image on the PDF and assign it an electronic character-based file that can then be entered into an editable format, such as a Text or Word document.

Which kind of application you can use if you want to convert Acrobat to ASCII?

If you want to convert Acrobat document or other image file like BMP, TIF, TIFF, GIF, JPG, etc. to ASCII file with Optical Character Recognition technology by command line, you can take the program Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line to help you. It support only English in its default language package and if you want this program to recognize other kinds of languages, you can click here to download more OCR languages.

Download and Purchase Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line

Version	Quantity	Price (USD)	Download	Buy All
Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line	1 Server License	$195 each
Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line	1 Developer License	$1495 each
OCR Language Packs		Free		Free

Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line has following features:

Supports all Windows platforms, Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7, 32bit and 64bit systems;
Convert scanned PDF files and image files(TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPG, PCX, TGA, etc.) to editable text files;
Faster than other OCR software;
Support page selection, OCR single, range or all pages at a time;
Support over 10 Languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and many Languages else;
Convert text based PDF documents to text format, Fast, Accurate, Free Trial;
Support command line operation (for manual use or inclusion in scripts);
Not need any other Acrobat reader or viewer;
Extract text from encrypted PDF files and password protected documents;
Convert PDF file to text file and retain original physical layout;
Convert PDF file to text file with reading order layout;
Insert or remove page break 0x0C characters between pages in text file;
Insert additional text at end of each text page, e.g., Page Information is %PageNumber% of %PageCount%;

Acrobat to ASCII OCR Converter Command Line Options:

C:\>pdf2txtocr.exe
Acrobat to ASCII Converter OCR Command Line v2.0
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Usage: pdf2txtocr.exe [options] <PDF-file> <Text-file>
-firstpage <int>   : first PDF page to convert
-lastpage <int>    : last PDF page to convert
-res <int>         : set resolution, the unit is DPI (default is 300 dpi)
-ownerpwd <string> : set owner password for encrypted PDF file
-userpwd <string> : set user password for encrypted PDF file
-layout            : maintain original physical layout
-noc               : don't insert page breaks 0x0C between pages in text file
-bitcount <int>    : set color depth when render PDF page to image data, it can be set 1, 8, 24, default is 8bit
-ocr               : enable OCR function for scanned PDF file
-lang <string>     : choose the language for OCR engine
-text <string>     : add additional text at end of each text page, this parameter supports the following variables:
    %PageNumber%   : current page number
    %PageCount%    : total page count of PDF file
-$ <string>        : input your License Key
Examples:
pdf2txtocr.exe C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -firstpage 1 -lastpage 1 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -res 300 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ownerpwd 123 -userpwd 456 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -layout C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -noc C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe C:\in.tif C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe C:\in.jpg C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe C:\in.bmp C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe C:\in.png C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -lang eng C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -bitcount 1 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -bitcount 8 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -bitcount 24 C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -lang deu C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -lang deu C:\in.tif C:\out.txt
pdf2txtocr.exe -text "PageText %PageNumber% of %PageCount%" C:\in.pdf C:\out.txt

Following command line will OCR all PDF files in D:\temp\ folder to text files:
for %F in (D:\temp\*.pdf) do pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr -lang deu "%F" "%~dpnF.txt"

Following command line will OCR all PDF files in D:\temp\ folder and subdirectories to text files:
for /r D:\temp %F in (*.pdf) do pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr "%F" "%~dpnF.txt"

Following command line will OCR all PDF files from D:\temp\ folder and output text files to C:\test folder:
for %F in (D:\temp\*.pdf) do pdf2txtocr.exe -ocr "%F" "C:\test\%~nF.txt""

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