Event: PDF creation and processing time comparisons
Lately I have been converting folders of documents from paper to a paperless PDF version to cut down storage space necessary for all of these documents once we move to the new office location in March. I had 30 sets of documents scanned with varying page lengths, 19 of which had already been shoved into PDF documents and had OCR (optical character recognition) performed on them. I had 11 remaining and wanted to cut the time it would take to produce these documents. So, I went with the obvious choice, a faster computer. Currently in my 'office' I have 2 computers a Celeron machine running at 897 mHz, and a Pentium 4 machine running at 3.00 gHz, but only have Adobe Professional and the installation rights for the celeron machine. Lucky enough for me an office down the hall, formerly occupied by Nazar, has a Pentium 4 machine that happens to be availale for occasional use and sports Adobe Professional already installed. The results were fantastic, it had several hundred .jpg files put together in one document and had done a complete OCR job on the whole mess in under 5 minutes. On the celeron machine, you can expect it to take somewhere in the ballpark of 45 minutes, partially due to the fact that it's trying to operate Outlook and Employee check-in/check-out software in the background.










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