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Overview: Full feature set
bullet Accurately perform optical character recognition (OCR)
bullet Take advantage of advanced page-layout and content recognition
bullet Clean up your images before applying recognition
bullet Choose the output file format that best suits your requirements
bullet Scalable architecture ensures productive document processing for low- or high-volume requirements
bullet Workbench metaphor allows reusable workflows
bullet Get greater control of the OCR process using the Zone tool
bullet Fine-tune your files for readability and searchability with Acrobat Reviewer
bullet Correct OCR suspects more efficiently with the QuickFix tool
bullet Easily integrate Acrobat Capture with existing software
bullet Find flexible scanning and file input options
Accurately perform optical character recognition (OCR)
bullet Recognize documents in 16 languages: U.S. English, U.K. English, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Portuguese, Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German.
bullet Recognize specialized documents with legal, medical, scientific, and large user-defined dictionaries.
Take advantage of advanced page-layout and content recognition
bullet Improved page decomposition lets you convert forms and visually rich color pages with lines and graphics into Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files that need less cleanup before publication.
bullet Automatically create intra-document links to make your manuals, books, or guides easy to navigate. Included are tables of contents with nested bookmarks, cross-references, indexes, e-mail links, and URLs. Linking is supported in both PDF and HTML.
bullet Define customized font sets for improved font mapping.
bullet Automatically identify frequently used styles such as headers, subtitles, and body text.
bullet Automatically store suspect words as bitmap images in PDF Formatted Text and Graphics files. The suspect word bitmap density is adjusted to closely match the visual appearance of the surrounding text.
bullet Achieve smaller file sizes for color documents with color segment recognition.
bullet Enable efficient searching with keyword recognition.
Clean up your images before applying recognition
bullet The new Deskew Agent automatically straightens the page to improve OCR recognition.
bullet In-the-box agents connect to TMSSequoia and Kofax image enhancement software to enable high-quality image cleanup.
Choose the output file format that best suits your requirements
bullet PDF Formatted Text and Graphics — for compact, searchable files with only one layer. The layer reproduces graphics and replaces bitmap text with formatted text based on OCR.
bullet PDF Image Only — for a cross-platform image of the entire scanned page.
bullet PDF Searchable Image (Exact) — for an image of the entire scanned page with text that has been run through OCR hidden behind, creating a searchable bitmap. This file type (formerly known as PDF Image+Text) preserves the look of the original scanned image, making it the ideal format for meeting legal requirements.
bullet PDF Searchable Image (Compact) — for a searchable image of a scanned color page, with small file sizes.
bullet HTML — for Web publication with support for frames and cascading style sheets.
bullet ASCII — for text-only output.
Scalable architecture ensures productive document processing for low- or high-volume requirements
bullet Ensure job completion with robust error handling and notification features.
bullet Adobe Acrobat® Capture® Personal Edition is ideal for users who need to create high-value documents, have low-volume requirements, or have occasional batch processing needs.
bullet Process up to 20,000 PDF Searchable or Formatted Text and Graphics pages (dongle included).
bullet Process an unlimited number of PDF Image Only pages.
bullet Additional 20,000- and 100,000-page dongle packs may be purchased separately.
bullet Personal Edition runs on a single computer as a standalone application.
bullet Acrobat Capture Cluster Edition is scalable for high-volume requirements, letting you complete big paper-to-PDF conversion projects in less time.
bullet Process an unlimited number of any type of PDF pages.
bullet Cluster Edition lets you do workload balancing.
bullet Install additional licenses of Cluster Edition to enable multiple workstations to share the workload.
bullet Take advantage of multiprocessor support — dual and quad processor licensing available.
bullet Acrobat Capture Assistant software lets up to five additional workstations offload labor-intensive tasks that require human intervention such as Zoning, QuickFix, Reviewer, and Archive (ODMA). In addition, it provides the flexibility to submit and modify workflows.
bullet Find out which version of Acrobat Capture is right for you.
Workbench metaphor allows reusable workflows
bullet The new workbench interface acts like a command center, letting you build customized workflows, submit jobs, track the progress of automated functions, and interact when manual intervention is needed.
bullet Create reusable document-processing workflows tailored to different types of conversion projects. Assemble customized workflows for forms, magazine articles, reference manuals, and other common documents with drag and drop simplicity. Included agents are:
Type Name of agent(s)
OCR Capture Image
Image Manipulation Deskew, Uncompress Image, Filter Image, Rotate TIF, Split Multipage TIFF/PDF, Zone
Collation Bind, Combine PDFs
Touch Up Reviewer, QuickFix
Export To PDF, HTML, ASCII
Convert Image To PDF, TIFF
Deliver To Archive (ODMA), E-mail, Store
bullet Customized processing lets you modify workflow settings for a specific job.
Get greater control of the OCR process using the Zone tool
bullet Define areas of scanned pages to be treated as images, text, or ignored by using the Zone tool to identify the exact information you want to extract from your documents.
bullet Define OCR keyword zones for enhanced searching.
bullet Run interactively on each page or create a reusable zone template that can be applied to a workflow.
Fine-tune your files for readability and searchability with Acrobat Reviewer
bullet Replace bitmap words with formatted, searchable text.
bullet Edit intra-document links such as tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes.
bullet Change the formatting of your electronic text one instance at a time or reassign styles across the document.
bullet Import and place images in your document.
bullet Save time by reviewing complete documents before creating output.
bullet Maximize searchability by placing hidden keywords behind signatures, graphics, and illustrations.
Correct OCR suspects more efficiently with the QuickFix tool
bullet This new tool for correcting OCR suspects sorts by word, reason, or confidence level to work quickly and effectively with each document.
bullet Easily update the user-defined dictionary to reduce the number of OCR suspects.
Easily integrate Acrobat Capture with existing software
bullet Use the robust Adobe Acrobat Capture software development kit (SDK) and the application programming interface (API) to integrate Acrobat Capture with your document workflow software, fax and e-mail applications, scanning software, and more. The API lets you create custom agents, create Web submittal sample clients, and get access to low-level application control.
bullet ODMA and metadata support enable easy integration with more than 20 document management systems.
bullet Find out more about Adobe SDKs and the Solution Partner Program.
bullet Acrobat Capture provides flexible watched folder options:
bullet Watched folder processing to workflow
bullet Customized controls for image processing
bullet Metadata support for documents
Find flexible scanning and file input options
bullet Most popular desktop and high-volume scanners are supported through ISIS and TWAIN drivers, including more than 150 ISIS scanner configurations.
bullet LZW and CCITT group 4 compression are supported directly from scanners, enabling faster throughput.
bullet Enhanced scanning options include fixed size batches, reusable scanner settings, support for automatic document feeders, duplex pages, and separator sheets.
bullet Convert documents to Adobe PDF from common image formats, such as JPEG, TIFF (including G3, G4, and LZW formats), PCX, BMP, and PDF Image.
bullet Scan pages directly to PDF Image files.
bullet Scan directly to predefined workflows.
bullet Support for larger paper sizes lets you scan and convert pages up to 54x54 inches.