What's the best tool to use to convert scanned PDFs so they can be indexed in SharePoint?

Question

I have a large amount of PDFs and I need to be able to search them in MOSS 2007. I am aware of the iFilter which is required, but it will not index scanned PDFs. What is the fastest way to handle this problem?

Answer 1

Image PDFs do behave differently than those created from word docs. You can probably get some OCR tools to help. Its been awhile, but I think KnowledgeLake had the ability to OCR and auto-index some of the scanned documents.

Answer 2

Well, I heard that ABBYY FineReader 10 is a very good software to do this (I never tried it). It will probably include some DEV work on your side to automate this.

Answer 3

You can use Acrobat Pro. It contains an OCR Text Recognition batch command that will convert entire folders.