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Prevent auto-OCR when opening Edit PDF menu

Explorer ,
Sep 12, 2023 Sep 12, 2023

I have a set of scans in separate files that I need to crop. They are image scans without OCR, and they do not need OCR. I just need to crop them, but every time I open the Edit PDF menu to choose the Crop Page tool, Acrobat automatically runs OCR on every file, which causes a forced delay while I wait for this inefficient app to run its task. Is there any way to prevent Acrobat from ever running OCR before I ask it to? In the past, this was the default. Now it doesn't seem like there's any way around it.

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Edit and convert PDFs , Modern Acrobat , PDF , Scan documents and OCR
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Community Expert ,
Sep 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023

You can disable OCR

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Community Expert ,
Sep 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023

You can disable OCR

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Explorer ,
Sep 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023

That doesn't work. Even when I deselect that, subsequent files still default back to auto OCR

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 04, 2023 Dec 04, 2023

This is not the answer and does not solve the issue?
Even when turning off the "More settings" to not make all the pages editable, then turn off the "Recognize scanned text", it still seems to force an OCR conversion for the current page to allow "editing".  As Adobe have bundled more items into the same "Edit" function, this is where it goes wrong. I might want simply add some more text, but not OCR the previous scanned document.  It seems overly difficult to do this?

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New Here ,
Feb 03, 2025 Feb 03, 2025
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Sorry. This is not the correct answer, as it doesn't prevent automatic OCR when I try to edit subsequent files.

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 04, 2023 Dec 04, 2023

I've had the same frustration without an option to turn off the process, but as you would have probably found by now - you can press ESC as soon as it starts OCR conversion to halt the process.  If you're then cropping the document, it should behave if you don't jump around to other pages in Edit mode afterward.   Certainly not an acceptible change by Adobe compared to past control over documents, but a current workaround. 

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Explorer ,
Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

I can't believe that there isn't an option in preferences to check/uncheck OCR. Seems like a simple solution vs having to hit ESC every time I click edit for EVERY page. 😕

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Explorer ,
Jan 13, 2025 Jan 13, 2025

HI All,   this is a pain in the  rear ,  and now even when I UNTICK recognize text ,  make a change and click control S to save the file  the  program  DOES THE SAME THING  when trying to save the changes or edited  file,  THIS IS SOOO frustrating ,  

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