NOTE: Reducing PDF file size produces the smallest file size. Option 1: Batch Reduce PDF File Size (Acrobat) If you choose Output to Searchable Image, adobe will auto-straighten page plus reduce file size This action sets the Output to Searchable Image (Exact).

(*) Do not change page auto-straighten setting.

Do not select PDF Optimizer (use below options instead).

Goto Tools > Action Wizard > Manage Actions > Select action > Edit

To change filenaming or OCR language must edit the action before running.

While action is running will see message 'Converting scanned page to Searchable Image'

(Optional) Change location by pressing the Save option and select different location.

In Acrobat > Tools > Action Wizard > Action List > Batch OCR PDFs.

You will then get a message “The action has been imported.”.

You will get a message “Do you want to import this action to Acrobat?.

This action performs text recognition with no page auto-straighten (*) and overwrites source file in same location. TIP: You can manually OCR per page if there is a mix text-style in your document.

If your document only consists of handwritten text, skip this step.

It's important to run OCR before optimizing or reducing file size to ensure higher quality of OCR.

In this example, the folder names are the digital object identifier, which is also the PDF filename. The next step is to copy these commands to a *.bat file and execute. This example uses Excel formulas to create the IM commands.

In the below example, individual TIF files are arranged into subfolders where each subfolder corresponds to an item level (digital object). This process will automatically embed the filename to the PDF Title meta-tag.Recommend running job overnight or at a dedicated work station (e.g.

This process takes a lot of processing power.

Therefore this step will temporarily double the storage usage until the PDFs have been optimized.

Files produced using this method will be the same size as the source image.

This method will automate the creation of image-only PDFs using ImageMagick convert option to combine multiples files into a single PDF.

Optimizing PDFs for web display will improve user experience with faster downloads or online rendering of files.

The following guide outlines methods for combining different tools to create multiple PDFs across different folders. TIFs) or batch create one PDF per image for many images, but there is no easy way to batch create multiple PDFs for multiple files.

Adobe Acrobat can easily create a single PDF from multiple source files (e.g.

Option 1: Batch Reduce PDF File Size (Acrobat).

Adobe acrobat dc reduce file size