Automatically preparing the PDF document to read

If you have a readable PDF document, SprintPlus can automatically recognize the language of the text.

If you have an optional scan and SprintPlus OCR module, then SprintPlus can automatically recognize the layout. SprintPlus searches the document for the different text blocks and specifies a read order. For example, columns are automatically recognized and the order of the fields automatically displayed per page.

  1. Open the PDF document in SprintPlus.
  2. Choose PDF Tools > Autodetection .
  3. From the Pages options group, select the page range for applying auto detect:
    • All pages
    • Current page
    • from X to Y of Z
  4. Select the Document structure check box if you want the program to detect the text boxes and reading order. You can only check this option if you have the optional scan and SprintPlus OCR module.
  5. Move the slider more to the Faster detection or more to the Better detection.
    Choose better detection, in documents that contain a lot of details and/or that use a small font.
  6. Select Keep empty squares to keep the empty text boxes found by auto detection.
    It is advisable to disable this option, unless you want to use the empty text boxes to add text.
  7. Select Language detection if you also want language fields automatically detected. Do NOT activate this option if the document only contains one language. Next, choose one of the following options:
    OptionExplanation
    Use all available languages Choose this option if the text contains more than two languages.
    Use following languages: Choose this option if the document contains two different languages. From the drop-down list, choose Language 1: the language that occurs most frequently in the text. From the drop-down list, choose Language 2: the language that occurs least frequently in the text. This increases the accuracy of the language recognition.
  8. Click OK.
  9. Choose the PDF Tools tab and click one of the (Activate ignore tool , Activate order tool , Activate image tool , Activate alternative text tool  or Activate language tool ) tools to show the fields that were automatically detected.
  10. Continue to manually prepare the document for reading, as required. See Manually preparing the PDF document for reading