Turn off OCR
Another little unwelcome feature in Acrobat DC for Mac is the constant OCR function. I work in architectural drawings. These rarely require character recognition. A lot of these drawings now are rendered from Revit, so the file sizes are starting to be gargantuan with all the additional data. The first drawing I opened in Acrobat DC, I thought it would never open, I just kept seeing a small status bar at the lower portion of the page.
I finally found a Preference to "control" the OCR a little better and restrict to Current Page. But, even then, give the drawings I deal with, each time I flip to a new page, it's a very long delay. Sometimes I just want to scan quickly. In previous versions of Acrobat Professional, the user had the option of scanning a document. Why was that option taken away?
I have found myself using the OS X application Preview more and more since installing DC to jump through architectural drawings. Is there any way to make OCR scanning an option, and not default in Acrobat Professional DC?
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