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Hi, @swann_x1231, Let me answer your last question first: no. You cannot select regions of the page to OCR and others not to scan. 

 

As far as the quality, please review this blog I wrote for Adobe a number of years ago. I should help you with what you can and cannot expect and how to improve the quality of the scan to get better OCR

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-community-professionals/scanning-clean-searchable-pdfs/m-p/4785435?page=1#M89

 

Good luck!

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gary_sc
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July 7, 2025

Hi, @swann_x1231, Let me answer your last question first: no. You cannot select regions of the page to OCR and others not to scan. 

 

As far as the quality, please review this blog I wrote for Adobe a number of years ago. I should help you with what you can and cannot expect and how to improve the quality of the scan to get better OCR

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-community-professionals/scanning-clean-searchable-pdfs/m-p/4785435?page=1#M89

 

Good luck!