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Eager Beager
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April 9, 2015
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Need option to disable automatic Convert to Text

  • April 9, 2015
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Using Acrobat DC under Mac.

  1. So I open a PDF that is composed of multiple scanned pages.
  2. From the (Tools?) panel, I click Edit PDF.
  3. As I flip through the pages, I realize that Acrobat is automatically applying "Convert to Text"
  4. However, I don't want this, and there is no way to turn this off. This is terribly inconvenient and distracting.

For the Settings, please add an option to disable automatic conversion. Not sure why I'm having to ask for this.

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    Correct answer MattyTomTom

    Thought I'd copy over the answer from Adobe from another very similar post.  Thanks Adobe, you got there in the end.

    Bilal Ansari

    Correct Answer by Bilal Ansari on Oct 16, 2015 8:33 PM

    Hi everyone,

    Thanks for your patience. We understand that this is an annoying behaviour and now we have a solution for you. In the latest version of Acrobat DC, you can disable the "auto convert to text".

    Just open any scanned PDF and click on Edit PDF. On first launch, Acrobat will convert the image to text. Now all you have to do is click on the 'Revert to Image' button on the Right Hand Pane. Acrobat now remembers this setting and will not convert any scanned document to text unless you change it from here.

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    MattyTomTom
    Participating Frequently
    August 28, 2015

    Agree with all the above. This needs fixing. Though I understand the rationale behind the recognition, it's incredibly inconvenient to me several times a day. e.g. Today I need to recreate a business card, like for like, from a pdf. I need to extract the bitmap and at present cannot. The only option is to rasterize the pdf which is frustrating to say the least.  PLEASE FIX!

    darylm68046216
    darylm68046216
    Participant
    July 28, 2015

    Please, please allow us to disable this automatic document conversion!!! I scan documents all day long sometimes just need to enhance the background of the scan to make the watermark readable and I don't need to have all the text suddenly editable. On a 30 page scanned document, I'm wasting almost 5 minutes waiting for the conversion and then undoing it.

    GeekMom
    GeekMom
    Participant
    July 6, 2015

    I have lost so much time undoing the automatic recognitions.  PLEASE fix this ASAP!!!!!

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      kalbrandon
      Participating Frequently
      June 19, 2015

      I agree. There are several situations where I need to preserve the images and outlined text, without having Acrobat automatically detect and convert text (for example, logos, images, etc.).

      Please make automatic recognition optional!

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        lovemy adobestuff
        Participant
        June 18, 2015

        Auto-recognition goofs the original document after running recognition so not sure how it would help.

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          edw13959495
          Participant
          June 18, 2015

          I'm using the trial version and plan to purchase a PDF editor soon.  So far I find Acrobat to be a superior product but this automatic conversion without any option to disable it is just too much of an annoyance for me to consider purchasing it .  Like David, I am also experiencing crashes on complex pages when the conversion is occurring.

            Bernd Alheit
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            Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            April 9, 2015

            Want you edit the document content or not?

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            Eager BeagerAuthor
            Inspiring
            April 9, 2015

            Hi Bernd,

            I see that your English is a little weak, but I believe that you are asking, "Why did you click 'Convert to Text' and not expect that all of the pages would be converted automatically."

            Well, in a situation where I am working with a single page out of a collection, I need the following:

            1. Cursor down to the page that I need, without the pages being converted automatically.
            2. When I get to the page that I need, I click "Convert to Text."

            There needs to be an option to turn off automatic conversion.

            Thanks

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