Still no way to turn off auto OCR?

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January 8, 2025
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New version of Acrobat on new WIN11 machine.

Despite lots of comments requesting otherwise, the newest version of Acrobat STILL forces an automatic OCR conversion just by opening the Edit "tab". 99% of the time, when I access that action group its only because I just want to CROP a pdf, an action which doesn't require OCR.

We have a lot of programs which automatically create pdfs, most of which do not format well, especially when creating a pdf from an image, a picture, a screen capture, or a drawing. I probably crop two dozen pdfs every day just to clean them up. Its very annoying to have to wait for a feature to complete that I DON'T WANT and DON'T NEED.

IS THERE A WAY TO SHUT OCR OFF YET!

Edit and convert PDFs

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

You can add the "Crop Tool" to the toolbar and use this?

GeekyGirlRex7295714

Community Expert

How frustrating!

Have you tried this:

Go to preferences
Select Reading
From the Page Vs Document dropdown list, select "Do not read documents"

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Keith36942260imwiAuthor

Participant

Thats an accessibility feature for voicing the screen text, how many pages to read. Its not the OCR scan which is triggered when the Edit menu is selected.

GeekyGirlRex7295714

Community Expert

Have you already tried this:

Steps to disable Read Mode

Close your internet browser
Open Acrobat or Reader (without a file being open)
Select Edit then Preferences
Select the Internet category
Uncheck Display in Read Mode by default
Click OK
Relaunch Acrobat

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