From the course: Bluebeam Revu 21 Essential Training
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Using OCR - Bluebeam Tutorial
From the course: Bluebeam Revu 21 Essential Training
Using OCR
In the last video, you saw that I had no trouble searching for my search term, in that case, tile, and I found all the instances of that word within my document. Sometimes, though, I'll type some text up here to search for, and Bluebeam won't find anything, even though I can see it right there on the page. There's a couple of reasons that that can happen. One of the reasons for that is that even though this looks like text, it may not have actually been saved as text. So sometimes somebody takes a set of construction drawings and scans them in on a scanner, which means this is really just a big image as opposed to having addressable, searchable text. And sometimes the way that the drawing was exported out of a program like AutoCAD, the things that look like text in AutoCAD don't actually become one of these true-type fonts that is searchable in Bluebeam Revu. In that case, there's a quick workaround for that, and that is to run OCR, or Optical Character Recognition. What that does is…
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