Unrotate pages rotated by failed text recognition

[feklee]

I do OCR on scanned images:

• Document Language: English (UK)

• Output: Searchable Image

• Downsample To: 300 dpi

This generally works fine. However, there are two pages in a document of 220 pages where Acrobat:

1. fails to recognize text,
2. it rotates the scan quite a lot.

For point number 1, it is forgiven: There is not much text, and that text is stylized. I don't even expect it to recognize that.

However, point number 2 is a big problem. How do I undo these rotations?

I tried to manually rotate with the edit tool. However, this can only be done in 2° or 1° increments, and it's not possible to rotate the image back to its original position.

[Bernd Alheit]

2. Replace this pages with the pages of the original document.

[feklee]

Thank you for the suggestion! I was thinking about that. However, there is another issue then:

How do I downsample these to 300 DPI with the exact same settings used for the other pages?

[Bernd Alheit]

You can downsample the pages with the PDF Optimizer.

[feklee]

Thanks, I now did a different strategy, OCRed with Searchable Image (Exact), then downsampled with the optimizer. It would be nice if Adobe would one day fix the issue with images randomly rotated if OCR fails on them, or if there was a way to rotate them back. A better rotate tool is more than overdue. This means, as of now, there is no answer for my question.