Comment by anodyne33

Does anybody regularly use Acrobat's text extraction engine? I've had fine results as far as accuracy goes when compared to other OCR engines but one sticking point drives me nuts. My problem is, and I'm typically doing this in batches of thousands of files, if a PDF has a footer applied Acrobat sees that as renderable text and blows off the rest of the rest of the page. I've tried all manner of sanitizing, removing hidden information, saving as another PDF protocol and still can't get around the plain text footers/headers. In a perfect world I'd have unlimited Tesseract or ABBYY access but we're trying to do this on the cheap and I'm working with client data that I don't want to bang through Google. I'll have to poke at some of the open source tools mentioned so far, too.