[Dspace-general] converting non-searchable PDF's to searchable PDF's

[William Simpson]

We're uploading some PDFs into DSpace here at the University of Delaware, and the software used to create the PDF files is an older software (not sure what application was used), so I found out that the PDFs are not full text searchable in DSpace (ie, because they are TIFF formatted files). So the question is, does anyone know whether Adobe Acrobat Capture 3.0, or any application for that matter, can convert PDF TIFFs to "True" PDFs, or is it easier to start from scratch, and rescan the original documents?

William Simpson
University of Delaware Library