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January 7, 2020
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How to do text recognition on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

  • January 7, 2020
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Hi

 

How do I run a text recognition on my pdf documents on Adobe Acrobat Reader DC? My app version is 2019.021.20061.

 

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Reader doesn’t do that. You need to pay for Acrobat. 

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Participant
January 28, 2023
Click on the “Edit PDF” tool in the right pane. Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF. Click the text element you wish to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image.
 
Participant
October 6, 2023

It doesn't anymore.  Also there used to be an actual Recognize Text tool that worked better than Edit but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

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Legend
January 7, 2020

Reader doesn’t do that. You need to pay for Acrobat. 

Participating Frequently
January 7, 2020

Thank you