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adwul62
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April 8, 2022
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How to have Acrobat perform OCR in the background?

  • April 8, 2022
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Acrobat Pro 2020 is performing an OCR. As it is a large file, it takes quite a while. All that time it is taking a significant part of my screen: the minimize button doesn't work. All the time this 'wrist watch' is showing, making any resizing close to impossible.

Is there any way to solve this?

that aside,  during this this OCR task, I obviously can't open another pdf (will get some DDE error or something)

Thanks.


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Correct answer try67

If you're on Windows try Win+D to minimize the application and continue having it run in the background.

And no, you can't open any other PDF files while this is happening.

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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April 8, 2022

If you're on Windows try Win+D to minimize the application and continue having it run in the background.

And no, you can't open any other PDF files while this is happening.

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    adwul62Author
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    April 8, 2022

    THANK you! Indeed, that worked out fine. Obviously I wasn't aware of this trick.
    Sadly, Acrobat can not run a 2nd session. Well, so be it.

    Thanks again.

    Bernd Alheit
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    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
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    April 8, 2022

    You can start a 2nd session with the option /n of acrobat.exe.

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