Yes, it will make the process more tedious, but you’ll quickly develop a workflow, and in the end, you’ll get better results. Instead, zoom into an area and select smaller groups of “text.” In a way, this tool is a lot like you, in that it’s easier for you to recognize a font if you’re zoomed in and can see it in detail, as opposed to seeing as a spot of colored pixels from far away. If you take nothing else from this post, please remember this: avoid the temptation to zoom extents and dragging a crossing selection box across the whole drawing. Now that you have the recognition settings made, click OK to dismiss the dialog, and you can proceed to selecting your text. You may want to type in some example text from your drawing to see how it compares. As usual, your mileage may vary, so if you need to throttle it back, feel free.įinally, there is a preview box, which will let you see what the highlighted font in the compare box looks like. There are buttons on the right side of the compare panel to allow you to reorder the list.Īlso, there is a slider to adjust the Recognition Threshold, but I suggest leaving it at its default of 95 for best performance.
In this example, the tool will first search for Simplex, then Romans, Txt, and finally Isocp. If the font you’re looking for is not in the box, just use the Add button. You may note the that the light bulb info is telling you that this is the most important part of the settings. Finally, if you have no idea what you’re searching for, you can tick the “Use best matching font” box, and the program will do just that. If you’re unsure what font was used or maybe there’s a mixture, select those that you want to compare. For example, maybe it’s a drawing from your office that uses your company standard of Simplex. Now, if you know for sure what font you’re searching to find, your job just got easier. The most important thing about it is the “SHX fonts to compare” panel in the upper left. The PDF Text Recognition Settings dialog box looks busy, but it’s really not.
You’ll be prompted to Select Objects, but you can also call up the Settings Dialog from either the Command Line, the Dynamic Input tool, or from the right click Popup Menu. We’ll start with the recognition command, also available from the command line as PDFSHXTEXT. You can start with either, as you can get to the Settings from the Recognize command as well. The tools you’ll need can be found nestled snugly next to the PDF Import command.
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