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Acrobat cannot run OCR due to renderable text on page

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December 13, 2024
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Trying to run the Text recognition tool on a file and I get the above error. Saved it as a TIFF file and brought it back into AA. Was able to run Text recognition, however, really did a horrible job on the rendering of the text. I have also tried changing the DPI to 600. Only after it was on Auto run.

Acrobat 24.1

Win 11

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Scan documents and OCR

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shaktikeshri

Adobe Employee

Hi @westdr1dw

Will it be possible to share the test fileon which the issue occurred.

Thanks,

Shakti K

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westdr1dwAuthor

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Shakti K concern has been resolved using Distiller.

Thanks

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi, @westdr1dw; please review this blog I wrote for Adobe several years ago. See if any of the scanning issues might be present in your scan.

BTW, Adobe has NEVER been able to scan a page with partial text already rendered. It's a legacy "feature!"

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-cannot-run-ocr-due-to-renderable-text-on-page/m-p/15038386

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westdr1dwAuthor

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Hello Gary;

Appreciate the response. However, the link just returns me to the same page.

I have discovered a way to work around this. Having been a AA user since ver 5, we use to use Distiller when we had issues trying to convert scanned image documents. Not sure why Adobe has made this feature difficult to find. Why anyone would save it to an image file, then import it into AA seems a little backward. In any case was able to turn image to Intelligent Text using Distiller. Hope Adobe keeps this little jewel around for many years. Thanks

gary_sc

Community Expert

Very sorry, I have no idea why that happened. I just tested the link below, and it worked a second ago. Very strange.

I hope you find this useful.

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

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