Turn off converting to editable text and images

[Brian38615536plxx]

Hello,

Using Adobe Acrobate Pro version 2024.002.20991.

I'm trying to turn off the converting scanned document to editable text and images that runs on every page as you scroll through a document. I'm able to turn this off for individual documents after it has already started. Is there a way to default this to not run?

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

Yes, see the capture.

[RonaldCz]

my scanned documents is grayed out and cannot be changed. Is it because I did not scan in a document?

[Bernd Alheit]

Your document doesn't look like a scanned document.

[RonaldCz]

No, it's not. I started a new page, when I save it and reopen the project it divides up the page into sections and i can no longer do word processing. Have to go back to Microsoft word to write a letter.  How do you keep the page from breaking up with headings and paragraphs?

[Bernd Alheit]

You can disable the option "Show bounding boxes".

[RonaldCz]

True but they are still there breaking up the page into headings and paragraphs which makes it hard to compose text going down the page.

Is there any way to stop the breakup into bounding boxes?

Otherwise I can only use a word processor to write a composition. 

[Bernd Alheit]

You can't stop this.

[SubratoNamata · Accepted solution]

And with new UI, pls find the attached screenshot.

[RonaldCz]

mine is greyed out, I created the page myself and did not scan. I wanted to get rid of the break up paragraphs and make it one long text. Seems it auto scans and breaks up my document. How can I turn this off?

[Greg Diana]

I haver the exact same problem. I have the box greyed out and bounding boxes selected.

If I import or copy CV's from other PDF's with certificates in image format ADOBE just automatically starts converting when I am scrolling throug pages. I have docs some 20MB and the whole program just locks and pressing escape does not work either.

Also if I go into edit mode it just starts recognition.

What is reqiored is somehow to disable OCR etc all together and only use it where and when required.

Currently it is just a loose cannon!