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Steve2011
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June 14, 2020
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How to recognize Japanese text in a PDF using Acrobat Standard DC

  • June 14, 2020
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Hi there,

I recently purchased Acrobat Standard DC and use it on Windows 8.1. The language setting is English. Now, I've downloaded a PDF file which is in both English and Japanese, and as the text in it was initially unsearchable, I used the 'Recognize text' button on 'Scan & OCR' (see below screenshot),

waited a while for Adobe to do its magic, and voila! I can now search the English text!

 

But the Japanese is still unsearchable.

Can I make Japanese text searchable as well? If so, how?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Correct answer try67

See: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-scanned-pdfs.html

 

[Edit: sorry, wrong link pasted]

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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June 14, 2020

OCR-ing pages with mixed languages is very tricky. However, in this case maybe not so much because they obviously use different alphabets. I would select Japanese as the primary language and see if the English text is picked up anyway.

If not, I guess it's not possible to do it, at least not with Acrobat.

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Steve2011Author
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June 14, 2020

Um, how do I select Japanese as the primary language? Do I go to Enhance, then Settings, and do something there?

try67
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June 14, 2020

See: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-scanned-pdfs.html

 

[Edit: sorry, wrong link pasted]

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