Chilidawg Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 OK, it's a start. it's too bad that the PDF import doesn't automatically do this. Also, unfortunately, it seems that PDF import interprets some bold fonts as solid fills, which are not recognized as SHX text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 I'm not sure why they went to all of this trouble, when they already have a pretty decent OCR routine in Raster Design. Having said that, I still don't understand why people are printing to PDF, then importing that PDF back into CAD, and then wanting the TEXT to reappear. Why not just go back to the original DWG file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Acrobat Pro also has a pretty good OCR (at least it does in my old Acrobat Pro . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aftertouch Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 To turn this function off: EPDFSHX = 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilidawg Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 I'm not sure why they went to all of this trouble, when they already have a pretty decent OCR routine in Raster Design. Having said that, I still don't understand why people are printing to PDF, then importing that PDF back into CAD, and then wanting the TEXT to reappear. Why not just go back to the original DWG file? In my case, the files were created 10 years ago, and the client only had the PDF versions. Unfortunately the original architect used some odd SHX fonts in the room ID tags that only import back in as solid fill objects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilidawg Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Acrobat Pro also has a pretty good OCR (at least it does in my old Acrobat Pro . I tried that. it didn't want to work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilidawg Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 A follow up. after using it for a while The feature works OK.... sort of as long as you are using it in a limited fashion. It's best to create a temporary layer, make that the active layer, but turn it off so that when you convert a block of text, it disappears and you can see if any letter (or parts of a letter, or periods, or dashes) got skipped. then you need to spell check at which point, you need to figure out if "ST RAGE" is what the original drafter wrote, or if there was a conversion failure. It sometimes has trouble with rotated text. The biggest issue is that the function appears to have a memory leak type error. if you use it a lot, it will stop working properly. or you will have other problems that you will need to save your work, and reboot the program to clear out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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