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waynej5463304
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June 7, 2023
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Android Adobe Acrobat Premium - OCR existing pdf to be able to copy and paste existing text

  • June 7, 2023
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Apologies if something already exists as it is difficult to find mobile only Adobe Acrobat related material. Rarely use a PC these days and was hoping that going up to Adobe Acrobat Premium on my mobile would save me a step from having to go to my PC to use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to OCR an existing non-OCR pdf document. When I select "Edit Pdf" and try to select existing text, I only get "Delete". Please do not suggest to use Adobe Scan on my mobile, as even though the existing pdf may be ISO A4, it will automatically crop it to a smaller page size, could possibly instead be US letter or legal by default? Adobe Scan also does that quite regularly on other non-A4 pdfs, as well as also sometimes skewing the existing pdf. Am hoping for a simple solution. 

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    S_S
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    S_SCommunity Manager
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    July 3, 2023

    Hi @waynej5463304,

     

    Hope you are doing well. Thank you for reaching out, and sorry for the delay.

     

    The feature is available on the iOS version of the application. You can long-press on the document to get the floating menu bar and select the option "Run Text Recognition."

     

    This should help you get the desired functionalities without using the desktop version.

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    -Souvik

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    waynej5463304Author
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    July 11, 2023

    Hi Souvik,

    unfortunately being one of the many world-wide Android (non-iOS/Apple) users, it would seem an entire cohort of potential customers are unable to avail themselves of similar convenient mobile functionality.

    Regards,

    Wayne

    S_S
    Community Manager
    S_SCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 12, 2023

    Hi @waynej5463304,

     

    Thank you for writing in! The features are in the pipeline for future releases.

     

    Also, I will forward the feedback to the product team for their review.

     

    -Souvik

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