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Hi all,

I just want to know if the "Adobe Acrobat Professionnal" module accept another format like tiff, JPG, directly inside on entry ?

I found this on documentation :
* Automatic: opens the incoming file in Acrobat without further instructions; Acrobat supports a number of formats in addition to PDF (refer to the application's documentation)

And localy there is no problem to open a Tiff file directly in Acrobat Pro. In switch flow i have an error... Don't understand why...

Thanks...

If what you want to do is to convert a Tiff to PDF I would not bother trying to get to the bottom of this, I would immediately implement a much better approach: use ImageMagick.

You can get the CLI from here: https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php. Using it in "Execute command" is very straightforward for such an easy task. In the "Command or path" you browse to the convert application that will be installed and in the "Arguments" you put and you configure "Output" as "File at path" and "Output extension" as PDF.

Hello Freddy, i'm Boris from CMI France

Thank you, but not possible.

In Acrobat pro when we import a Tiff picture we can recognize the text and in the PDF the text can be search (OCR). I must have this in my final PDF, thats why i must using Acrobat Pro and not other... maiby a solution with pitstop server but i don't found

Bonjour Boris!

I know that there is no support for the OCR functionality of Acrobat in the JavaScript API, but I have been able to make it work by editing the Acrobat preferences. In the Category - Convert to PDF you choose TIFF. You edit the settings. You switch on "Scan optimization" and you open the settings of that option and there you toggle on "Recognize text".

Or maybe use Tessearct and get it OCRed and output as searchable PDF...
Works in the CLI and may prove to be way more efficient and faster than using dedicated Acrobat configurator for that.

freddyp wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 5:59 pm Bonjour Boris!

I know that there is no support for the OCR functionality of Acrobat in the JavaScript API, but I have been able to make it work by editing the Acrobat preferences. In the Category - Convert to PDF you choose TIFF. You edit the settings. You switch on "Scan optimization" and you open the settings of that option and there you toggle on "Recognize text".

Salut Freddy this method work perfectly in Acrobat directly with the application. Thats why i project to make this in a switch flow but the flow element Acrobat don't accept Tiff on the entry

Arthur wrote: ↑Wed Dec 15, 2021 6:06 pm Or maybe use Tessearct and get it OCRed and output as searchable PDF...
Works in the CLI and may prove to be way more efficient and faster than using dedicated Acrobat configurator for that.

Thanks Arthur... i try with Tesseract but something wrong, don't work on my server... don't know why...

I have privately used OCRmyPDF (https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to OCR scans of reciepts and the like.
In my opinion it is easier to use than Tesseract. But have not used it in relation to Switch.

Boris wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:06 am Salut Freddy this method work perfectly in Acrobat directly with the application. Thats why i project to make this in a switch flow but the flow element Acrobat don't accept Tiff on the entry

It works on my Mac. Perhaps there is another preference in Acrobat that plays a role? Also check if the preference setting for "Scan optimization" is not lost. When I first tried it, it worked in Acrobat but not in Switch. I checked the setting again and it was off. I put it back on, quit Acrobat, tried again and then it worked. So you may have to do some tweaking, but conceptually it should work. Unless the behavior is different on Windows, that I have not checked.

freddyp wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:27 am

Boris wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 9:06 am Salut Freddy this method work perfectly in Acrobat directly with the application. Thats why i project to make this in a switch flow but the flow element Acrobat don't accept Tiff on the entry

It works on my Mac. Perhaps there is another preference in Acrobat that plays a role? Also check if the preference setting for "Scan optimization" is not lost. When I first tried it, it worked in Acrobat but not in Switch. I checked the setting again and it was off. I put it back on, quit Acrobat, tried again and then it worked. So you may have to do some tweaking, but conceptually it should work. Unless the behavior is different on Windows, that I have not checked.

On my switch server (Windows), when a Tiff file arrive on Acrobat tool on my switch flow a have an error... . can you show me your flow please ?

I am not sharing the exported flow because it is too easy to share , but here is a screenshot: That is all I did, of course with the changes to the Acrobat preferences.

Does your input Tiff end up in Problem jobs? What is the error message?

Hi Freddy yes i have an error look my screenshot :

Have you enabled JavaScript in preferences in Acrobat, as one of the log entries says?

Hi Jimmy, yes Acrobat Javascript is enable... Try again this morning... Error...