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May 13, 2009
Add Dynamic Exhibit Stamps in Acrobat using a free stamp set
Exhibits are documents attached to pleadings or contracts which are referenced by the main document.
Exhibits generally are numbered (1, 2, 3) or lettered (A, B, C) consecutively in the order they are first encountered in the body of the referencing document (brief, contract, etc.).
In order to easily tell one exhibit from another, case documents are often stamped with an easy-to-see exhibit stamp:
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Since PDF is the defacto (or often mandated) eFiling standard, it didn't come as a surprise that I've received a few emails on this exhibit stamping PDFs over the last couple of years.
I've written previously about creating custom stamps, but an Exhibit Stamp has both a static graphic element and a changing numeric or alphabetic element. I have proposed a workaround using watermarks and the typewriter tool to some firms, but that still was a lot of work.
Only recently have I come across an elegant solution that can accomplish both steps with a click! When you stamp the document, Acrobat will ask you for the exhibit number, then stamp it on the document:
Read the full article to download a special stamp set that does the work for you.
May 5, 2009
Better PDF OCR. ClearScan is smaller, looks better
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts scanned paper documents into searchable PDF documents. This technology has been available in Acrobat for about ten years.
While OCR accuracy and language support have improved over the years, the default OCR "flavor"— Searchable Image— was the only useful choice.
Searchable Image retains the underlying scanned image and adds an invisible layer of text on top which may be selected:
Searchable Image OCR has some shortcomings:
- File Size
For 300 dpi black and white scans, a typical file size is 15-40K per page. Scanning at higher resolutions (600 dpi Vs. 300 dpi) increases file size about three to four times. - Print Speed
Because of the image-heavy content, searchable image PDFs can take a long time to print. - Visual Quality
At 300 dpi, scanned documents are easily distinguishable in quality from computer-generated files.
In Acrobat 9, Adobe engineers added a new flavor of OCR called ClearScan. ClearScan offers improved text quality with a decrease in file size:
I've recently completed some benchmarking which shows dramatic file size decreases and quality gains. Read on to learn about size comparisons, how to use ClearScan OCR and a bit more about how it all works.