Converting images with searchable text

[Timothy DeWees]

I'm working in a large, complex book (3000+ pages).  One of my co-workers
was tasked with creating some new images for the book using visio. I
suggested converting the visio images into pdf "images" and pulling them
into the book that way thinking that the text within the images would be
searchable. The text within the original pdf images is searchable. But once
the entire book is converted to pdf, the text in the images is no longer
searchable.  I understand that I can run OCR on the new pdf file and the
text will be made searchable.  I was wondering though if there is something
I can do in the process of converting the visio figures and pulling them
into the frame book where the text would still be searchable after the frame
book is converted to pdf?  I did some research and there seemed to be
varying opinions on this, with some recommending third-party software.  But
I was wondering what I could do to improve this process without using
third-party software?  Thanks in advance for your help. 

 

Tim

 

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