editing OCR text in Acrobat X for mac

Question

I have a document that I need to make searchable and selectable by running OCR on it, but it contains both text and non-text elements that are not properly recognized by OCR (when I run OCR on it, some of it is accurate, but other elements are not). I need to find a way to edit the OCR, but I am having a hard time figuring out how to do that. I have Acrobat Pro X for mac. Ideally, I need to be able to follow the steps here (https://www.onelegal.com/blog/how-to-correct-ocr-errors-using-adobe-acrobat/) by running Preflight and Making OCR Visible, but the option to Make OCR Visible is not appearing in Preflight in my copy of Acrobat. Is this a version problem, perhaps? Could anyone help me figure out how to edit the OCR text in my document? Thanks!

gary_sc · Answer

Needless to say, Acrobat X, which was released in 2010, is long out of date and End of Line. I haven't even seen it in a very long time and can't really provide any specific assistance on how to do what you're doing. I did look up and find the Acrobat X manual (PDF), you can access this here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/archive/acrobat/X/pro/acrobat_X_pro_help.pdf

One other thing to be aware of: I do not know what version of the Mac OS you are using but I'm going to take a stab and guess that it's not the one you were using in 2010. As such, your version of Acrobat may not be functioning completely as intended. Perhaps it is, I have no way of knowing that.

Hopefully you'll find your answers in the above link to the PDF manual, good luck!

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