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March 28, 2018
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"Unable to locate the Paper Capture recognition service. Your installation may be corrupt"

  • March 28, 2018
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We have been dealing with this issue on one particular employee. She receives this error ("Unable to locate the Paper Capture recognition service. Your installation may be corrupt")

I have tried these fixes but have had no success.

I have fully uninstalled Adobe Acrobat through control panel, with CCLeaner, and Adobe Cleaner.

We also updated the Adobe and did fresh installs and even a repair but it did not fix the issue.

I also tried moving the plugin around specifically the Paper Capture plug in and it still gave the error.

Has anyone had any success with fixing this error?

Thanks!

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Correct answer divyap69359112

Hi Jamey6588540,

Please follow the steps mentioned in the below link to fix the paper capture service:

Could not access the recognition service when attempting OCR on Windows

Divya

7 replies

Participant
June 28, 2023

The fix isn't linked anymore. 

Participant
January 18, 2022

I have the same problem. The link provided for the purported fix is broken.

 

Adobe Employee
October 12, 2022
Participant
July 27, 2021

Guy's and Gals, I have ran into this issue before, and again this afternoon. The reason, for me at least, that this happened is because of Multiple OCR Softwares installed on the machine. I uninstalled the "Iris OCR" that came with the HP Printer software and it resumed working immediately.

 

Hope this helps.

Participant
May 25, 2022

Great fix!! Thank you!!

Participant
July 16, 2020

worked for me too.  THANKS!!

Participant
April 11, 2020

Thank you to the genius that figured this out. It worked like a charm. Why didn't Adobe put these DLL files where they can be found? I followed this advice.

 

Navigate to this folder: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 2017\Acrobat\plug_ins\PaperCapture\iDRS15

 In there, there are a bunch of .dll files.  Copy them.

 Go back to the plug_ins folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 2017\Acrobat\plug_ins\) and paste the .dll files in there. 

 

I leanred that the DLL extension means

DLL is a dynamic link library file format used for holding multiple codes and procedures for Windows programs. DLL files were created so that multiple programs could use their information at the same time, aiding memory conservation.

Participant
January 26, 2020

I'm having the same problem and this link does not work. Ready to throw this laptop out the window.

michelleybean78
Participant
January 27, 2020

I don't know how or why this worked, but it did:

 

Navigate to this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 2017\Acrobat\plug_ins\PaperCapture\iDRS15

 

In there, there are a bunch of .dll files.  Copy them.

 

Go back to the plug_ins folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 2017\Acrobat\plug_ins\) and paste the .dll files in there.  Worked for me!

 

 

Participant
February 8, 2020

Worked like a charm, thanks!

divyap69359112Correct answer
Adobe Employee
April 25, 2018

Hi Jamey6588540,

Please follow the steps mentioned in the below link to fix the paper capture service:

Could not access the recognition service when attempting OCR on Windows

Divya

Participant
January 7, 2019

I get a message that I have to have "administrative permission" to copy to these folders. How do I do that?

Adobe Employee
February 1, 2019

Hi Sjslev,

Sorry for the delayed response.

You can log in as the Administrator on the machine and then try.

Regards,

Divya