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Tim86
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November 26, 2015
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Acrobat doesn't ocr text - leaves them as images

  • November 26, 2015
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May I have some help please?

I use OCR to allow me to highlight and mark up text of scanned or prepared PDFs. Mostly these are unencrypted academic documents. I find that Acrobat Pro DC often does not OCR text when I click Edit. Instead it leaves the scanned blocks as images denoted in the upper left hand corner by the landscape icon and pop up text that says "This is an image". Is DC capable of OCRing these images? If so, how do I force the application to OCR?

Thanks very much

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    Tim86Author
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    December 7, 2015

    So I've been experimenting. Acrobat DC OCR just doesn't seem to work on documents I download from academic sources. And there is no visual feedback from Acrobat so indicate a) that it might be progressing with an OCR, or b) that there is a problem.

    Downloaded Abbyy FineReader and it has no problems with exactly the same documents.

    I'd really appreciate some ideas here.

    Thanks

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      Tim86Author
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      January 22, 2016

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