I am a new user of Acrobat Professional 8.1.2 on Mac OS 10.5.3. There's lots I don't know so I hope my problem has a simple solution where an experienced user can say of course, you should be doing this or that.

I am making pdfs from scans of printed articles. The scanner I'm using isn't mine and isn't connected to my computer so I can't scan direct to pdf. So I'm using jpegs, all scanned at 300 to 600 dpi, and cleaned up a bit with Photoshop before I read them into Acrobat.

Everything works great up to the point where I cut in the OCR text recognition. Even though this text is perfectly clean and readable to the eye, the accuracy of the OCR (as determined by copying blocks to a text reader) leaves much to be desired. The Acrobat help file says to correct any errors using the Find OCR Suspects function. But this function is far too unsuspicious - it found no suspects at all in any of these files!

I tried correcting by hand using the Touchup Text tool. To begin with, this didn't work well because the invisible text I was selecting to correct, was *not* directly over the visible text in the bitmap. But far worse than that, after I make 2 or 3 corrections this way something causes the "invisible text" in that entire paragraph to be hopelessly garbled!

Incidentally, my text recognition settings are: Language, English. Output style, Searchable Image (Exact). Downsample: none.

So, what silly little thing am I not doing that I should be?