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warrenj19685955
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August 1, 2016
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How do I disable text recognition in OCR?

  • August 1, 2016
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I have a pdf document (a book I have published) and want to convert it to Word in order to make some changes. I go through the process only to be told it can't be converted. I believe I need to disable the text recognition within the OCR settings, but I don't know how to get to that. Tools have not given me any help.

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
August 1, 2016

OCR is only text recognition. If you do not need do not run it.

What is the exact error message?

If the is some text already present then OCR does not work with older versions of Acrobat, only the most recent version with updates can OCR if any text is present.

You can save the PDF as an image. TIFF or JPEG, and OCR the the image file.

Have you tried to save the PDF as an RTF file?

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warrenj19685955Author
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August 2, 2016

Thanks for your reply. The message I get when trying to do a conversion is

"Conversion Failure;" clicking on that simply says "something went wrong

while uploading the file". I have had this message twice. Perhaps my

problem isn't OCR at all; trying to change the language only brings up

other languages.

My book was laid out in Scribus (Open Source InDesign) and saved as a PDF.

I only have the PDF; the designer has the Scribus version. I am trying to

make changes to the book (document) myself, rather than having to go back

to the designer for these minor changes.

I still want to convert from PDF to Word. I hope this background helps and

that someone can tell my whatelse to do. Thanks!

Warren R. Johnson

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 2, 2016

Looks like that you doesn't use Adobe Acrobat.

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