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August 15, 2016
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How do I OCR the image part of document with searchable text?

  • August 15, 2016
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I want to OCR text from an image, but the document has headers and footers that are already in searchable text format. Acrobat thinks there's no need to OCR because it detects searchable text. I have to print to paper, scan, and OCR the entire document. Thanks!

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Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
October 18, 2016

Did the solution we provided work for you?

Please feel free to ask if you still facing any issue.

Thanks.

Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
August 16, 2016

Hi Jim,

In Acrobat DC we identify Header and Footer and still run OCR. In older versions of Acrobat it skip OCr for these cases and gives a message that 'This page contains Renderable Text'.

If you have Acrobat DC, please goto Enhance Scans> Recognize Text> In this file> Recognize Text

If you have any older version of Acrobat you can use a workaround for this problem:

- Go to File> Save As Other > Image

- Reopen this Image in Acrobat

- Run OCR again on this document

Now you need not to print and scan the document again.

Hope it will resolve your problem. Please feel free to ask anything you want.

Thanks.