Hello
We do the following test
1. convert a PowerPoint slide to an image
2. Do an OCR on the image
When the OCR is to PDF the results are reasonable however when the OCR is to PowerPoint the results are much worse. Why there are differences and how can we get good results in PowerPoint ?
Moran
Dear Moran,
I assume you have used 72dpi or 96dpi resolution for your PowerPoint images. Please check with PowerPoint experts, how to save the images into different resolution. The recommended value is 300dpi.
The OCR quality also depends on fonts and formatting. If you use input PDF with a text layer, this does not matter. However, for the raster image this is very important. For decorate fonts and irregular formatting, the overall OCR quality is considerably worse.
Nadezhda Hi
My question related to something else.
Taking the same image, one time doing an OCR to PDF and second doing OCR of the same image to PowerPoint. The outcome in the PDF (text) is much better than the OCR
Moran
Dear Moran,
Though we try to do our best when restoring document formatting, ABBYY OCR technologies are still not as good as a human layout designer/imposer. This does not matter for the PDF export, because in searchable PDFs, we don't do any layout design/impose, we simply keep the page image "as is" and add the text layer. Since this option is not available in any other format but PDF, ABBYY OCR performs the layout imposing as good as it is able to.
Dear Moran,
I assume you have used 72dpi or 96dpi resolution for your PowerPoint images. Please check with PowerPoint experts, how to save the images into different resolution. The recommended value is 300dpi.
The OCR quality also depends on fonts and formatting. If you use input PDF with a text layer, this does not matter. However, for the raster image this is very important. For decorate fonts and irregular formatting, the overall OCR quality is considerably worse.
Really informative and helpful information about the difference between PDF and PowerPoint OCR.
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