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funkahdafi
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Apr 7, 2015 4:51 PM UTC
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Clearscan no longer available in Acrobat DC?

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?

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    Varinder_Saini
    Varinder_SainiCorrect answer
    Adobe Employee
    Apr 7, 2015 5:36 PM UTC

    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.

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    Varinder

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    jenifferc9612569
    jenifferc9612569
    Participant
    Sep 29, 2016 7:01 PM UTC

    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.....

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    Lovekesh Garg
    Adobe Employee
    Lovekesh Garg
    Adobe Employee
    Oct 5, 2016 12:56 PM UTC

    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.

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    jenifferc9612569
    jenifferc9612569
    Participant
    Oct 5, 2016 5:13 PM UTC

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

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    davidj91998571
    Participant
    Apr 21, 2015 5:46 AM UTC

    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
      Apr 21, 2015 3:11 PM UTC

      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
      Apr 21, 2015 4:06 PM UTC

      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

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      Varinder_Saini
      Adobe Employee
      Varinder_SainiCorrect answer
      Adobe Employee
      Apr 7, 2015 5:36 PM UTC

      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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      funkahdafiAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      Apr 7, 2015 6:11 PM UTC

      Are you sure about that, Varinder? Because from the online help, what the "Editable text and images" does is synthesize a new font and replace the text with the new synthesized font and put a downsampled low-res image in the background. I don't think Clearscan did that, did it?

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        Varinder_Saini
        Adobe Employee
        Varinder_Saini
        Adobe Employee
        Apr 7, 2015 6:21 PM UTC

        Yes Clearscan has been upgraded to "Editable Text and Images". Now it uses heuristics  to figure out the original font that was used in the original document. This feature is now also available as part of editing. So now you can edit your scanned documents too using "Edit PDF" tool.

        Thanks

        Varinder

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        davidp65750627
        Participant
        Apr 7, 2015 5:28 PM UTC

        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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