Why is my .png image file's text not made editable in Acrobat DC pro?

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August 9, 2016
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I have an image which contains text. I imported it to Acrobat DC and tried to use the OCR but the text does not get recognised, made into live text or placed in to editable text blocks. Does OCR not work on certain types of images?

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Correct answer seamartin1247

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Found out the hard way. It can't OCR white text on a black background. I inverted the image in photoshop and job done, Acrobat recognised the text!!

Thanks for the posted answers.

seamartin1247AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

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Found out the hard way. It can't OCR white text on a black background. I inverted the image in photoshop and job done, Acrobat recognised the text!!

Thanks for the posted answers.

Karl Heinz Kremer

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Acrobat's OCR is pretty good, but no match for dedicated OCR applications. For more challenging OCR jobs (like your's, or two different languages in the same document), I keep a dedicated OCR application around. It's a bit more cumbersome to use vs. just clicking the "recognize text in this file" tool, but when needed, it does a better job.