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Arabic Language support in Acrobat DC 2020

  • April 18, 2020
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Hi There, 

 

I noticed that Adobe Acrobat doesn’t support ARABIC language after I edit a PDF files, Is it a bug in the app? or there is alternative solution for it?

 

example of currant issue: the source was Arabic characters as Image then convert it as Word file then here is the result!

Thanks 

 

Correct answer Zaid Al Hilali

I'm not sure I understood what exactly you're trying to do. If you were trying to run OCR (Text Recognition) on an image, then Acrobat will give you zero percent of success. This OCR feature doesn't support Arabic at all. Adobe Acrobat team working on it apparently but we don't know when Adobe will release a fix.

If you are exporting a PDF with Arabic content to Microsoft Word, then Acrobat might some time succeed in this task, but in most cases, it will not pass the twenty percent success mark. You may vote on this issue here to make the Acrobat team consider fixing this feature.

Alternatively, if you're on the Windows platform, you may launch Microsoft Word, choose "Open" to open your PDF with Arabic content as this way MS. Word will give you a higher success rate but note, the Arabic text in the PDF must be a live text, not an image.

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Timucin Pusat
Participant
November 9, 2022

We are at the edge of 2023 and Adobe Acrobat Pro doesn't support ARABIC OCR?

 

There was talk here between 2017-2020 that Adobe Acrobat Pro would support Arabic, but years later there is still no news.

Are you mocking the users, or do you hate Arabic and the Arab world, or are you simply incompetent? So many other programs provide Arabic OCR support, and so many people have been talking about your lack of it for years, and yet you still incompetently do nothing. Shame on you.

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    azel34134920ecdu
    Participant
    December 7, 2024

    2025 and no response from them.

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    viviana_1223
    Participant
    April 11, 2025

    So Actually Adobe doesn't support Arabic till now, is it correct? I wanted to trasform a pdf in orc but I don't find Arabic among the languages.

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    April 18, 2020

    I'm not sure I understood what exactly you're trying to do. If you were trying to run OCR (Text Recognition) on an image, then Acrobat will give you zero percent of success. This OCR feature doesn't support Arabic at all. Adobe Acrobat team working on it apparently but we don't know when Adobe will release a fix.

    If you are exporting a PDF with Arabic content to Microsoft Word, then Acrobat might some time succeed in this task, but in most cases, it will not pass the twenty percent success mark. You may vote on this issue here to make the Acrobat team consider fixing this feature.

    Alternatively, if you're on the Windows platform, you may launch Microsoft Word, choose "Open" to open your PDF with Arabic content as this way MS. Word will give you a higher success rate but note, the Arabic text in the PDF must be a live text, not an image.

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      Geheim323802897rbc
      Participant
      January 11, 2024

      There was talk here between 2017-2020 that Adobe Acrobat Pro would support Arabic, but years later there is still no news.

      Are you mocking the users, or do you hate Arabic and the Arab world, or are you simply incompetent? So many other programs provide Arabic OCR support, and so many people have been talking about your lack of it for years, and yet you still incompetently do nothing. Shame on you.

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