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funkahdafi
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April 7, 2015
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Clearscan no longer available in Acrobat DC?

  • April 7, 2015
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Hi,

The Clearscan output option is no longer available in Acrobat DC, which confuses me. I always used it and it produced excellent results while keeping the file size small. I am guessing the new OCR options have replaced this with newer technology but the term Clearscan is no longer there. Any ideas what's going on there?

Thanks

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    Correct answer Varinder_Saini

    If you are using Acrobat Pro, Clearscan has been renamed to "Editable text and images". "Editable text and images" is not available for Acrobat Standard though.

    Thanks

    Varinder

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    jenifferc9612569
    jenifferc9612569
    Participant
    September 29, 2016

    Am I missing something to make Adobe DC recognize text that has a colored background?  I have a brochure with multiple colors, and it allows me to edit text that has a white background, but if the text happens to be on top of a color it just makes the box an image, and I can't edit the text.   Grrrrr.....

    Lovekesh Garg
    Adobe Employee
    Lovekesh Garg
    Adobe Employee
    October 5, 2016

    Hi Jeniffer,

    We apologize for the issue you are facing. Can you please provide following information to help us identify and resolve the issue ASAP:

    - Acrobat version number

    - OS detail

    - Sample document (You can use https://cloud.acrobat.com/send to share the document)

    Thanks.

    jenifferc9612569
    jenifferc9612569
    Participant
    October 5, 2016

    Adobe Acrobat DC, OS: Windows 10, and sample: Shared Files - Acrobat.com

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    davidj91998571
    Participant
    April 21, 2015

    I agree with lyew1.  I am a very long-term Acrobat user; I have tried Acrobat DC (on 30-day trial) and the job that used to be (with 'clearscan') very quick and would result in good OCR with a small file size, but still retain a very good quality scan (originally scanned at 300dpi) is now (I'm sorry Varinder, you are NOT correct, the DC options are not the same as clearscan) resulting on DC in hugely bigger file sizes.   (Typically 10 x the end result file size using clearscan on Acrobat Pro XI.)

    Until Adobe sorts this out, I will not be moving over to DC and will keep Acrobat Pro XI for the foreseeable future.

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      madhurmd
      Participant
      April 21, 2015

      Hi david and lyew1,

      Can you share any such files so that we can work on the problem if possible?

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      davidp65750627
      Participant
      April 21, 2015

      madhurmd,

      I am not having any trouble now—once Varinder.Saini pointed out that "Clearscan" has been renamed to "Editable Text and Images" I was able to find it and it works perfectly. However, in the future I hope that when Adobe changes the name of a vital function like "Clearscan" they give us some warning. The word "Clearscan" does not even appear in the "Help" files anymore, so if you don't already know the new name there is no way to search for it!

      Thank you,

      David

      Varinder_Saini
      Adobe Employee
      Varinder_SainiCorrect answer
      Adobe Employee
      April 7, 2015

      If you are using Acrobat Pro, Clearscan has been renamed to "Editable text and images". "Editable text and images" is not available for Acrobat Standard though.

      Thanks

      Varinder

      marianl73390228
      marianl73390228
      Participant
      November 6, 2015

      But the upgrade is less worth!

      New Version vs Clearscan! I would like to have Clearscan!

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        David.G.P
        Known Participant
        May 4, 2016

        I can't believe that the morons at Adobe now even managed to mess up the VERY LAST FEATURE that made me still buy and use Acrobat, which of course was Clearscan.

        Oh well. The ridiculous toy that Acrobat has become with its last iteration no professional user will want to lay his hands on anyway.

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          davidp65750627
          Participant
          April 7, 2015

          I just found out the same thing! I installed Adobe Acrobat DC on one computer this morning and found that Clearscan was missing — so I won't install it on my other computer until this is clarified. Clearscan is the main reason I use Acrobat in the first place!

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