After downloading my file the word document is mostly gibberish. Why? service used exportPDF

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After downloading my file the word document is mostly gibberish. Why? Service used "exportPDF".

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Hi shelbyrn,

The quality of a conversion really depends on the quality of the original PDF file. Please see Will Adobe ExportPDF convert both text and form... | Adobe Community. Do you know what or how the PDF file was created?

You may have better luck by disabling OCR as described in this document: How to disable Optical Character Recognition (O... | Adobe Community. (Note, however, that is option isn't optimal if the PDF was created from a scanned document; you'd want OCR enabled to convert the image text in the PDF to editable text).

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Sara

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Sara_ForsbergCorrect answer

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Hi shelbyrn,

The quality of a conversion really depends on the quality of the original PDF file. Please see Will Adobe ExportPDF convert both text and form... | Adobe Community. Do you know what or how the PDF file was created?

You may have better luck by disabling OCR as described in this document: How to disable Optical Character Recognition (O... | Adobe Community. (Note, however, that is option isn't optimal if the PDF was created from a scanned document; you'd want OCR enabled to convert the image text in the PDF to editable text).

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Sara

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Teresa CLNC©Author

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Problem solved by disabling OCR.

Thank you, Thank you

Teresa

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Awesome, Teresa!

Enjoy your day.

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Sara

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