PDF File Mgmt. Question

Posted by James Thompson
Mar 1, 2021 at 09:37 PM

I concur with the general response you’ve received. Paperport is the perennial standard; haven’t seen a new competitor of note in recent years though I haven’t been looking, but it’s probably good enough. Especially if it comes with your OCR software.

300 DPI is the bare minimum scan density you should set for any kind of acceptable OCR read. 600 DPI probably not necessary, and with some dirty scans 300 can actually clean things up a bit. If you’re scanning a poor-quality print yield will be low anyhow but extraneous smudges or non-intentional “ink” on the page can confuse the OCR software and sometimes I’ve found 300 DPI will reject the flotsam.