Trudy,

There are a number of conversion tools available that allow for conversion
between .tif and .pdf.  However, if any "full text search" need is
anticipated in the future, I would opt for an initial OCR, OR for an initial
conversion to a searchable .pdf.  Given that, I would not recommend using
OCR and full text search as a replacement for a good index for the
documents, although I've seen some prospects and customers who seem to THINK
of that as a good idea.

Douglas P. Allen, CRM, CDIA+

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Subject: [RM] Question on Imaging

Since for the past 6 yrs I have been rather inactive in the records  
management field I have a lot of catching up to do in the document
imaging/scanning 
arena.
 
My question is:
Can documents that are scanned into a pdf format, later be OCR'd and  
converted to tiff?  Or do they have to be ocr'd at the time of the initial
scan?
 
Thanks
 
Trudy M.  Phillips
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