Read out loud saying "warning emtpy page"

[carolinaf76011035]

I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro on windows 10. I open my PDF file and when I select the read out loud option it tells me "warning empty page". The page is not empty, I can see the text, what am I doing wrong? do I need to convert the file in any way? It seems to be looking at it as a picture because when I try to edit it picks up the entire text as one.

[AkanchhaS · Accepted solution]

Hi Carolinaf,

We apologize for the delay in response to your query.

As you have shared in the last line "It seems to be looking at it as a picture because when I try to edit it picks up the entire text as one."

I believe you are working with a scanned  document which has an image only and doesn't  contain the real text in it.

Using Adobe Reader, Read Out Loud would not going to work as it doesn't recognize the text in a scanned document. Because Adobe Reader doesn't run OCR (optical character reorganization).

In order to make this work, you need to use the Adobe Acrobat DC application, which would help you making the scanned document editable and then you can use the "Read Out Loud" functionality.

https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-to-edit-a-scanned-pdf-file 

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Akanchha

[Alisha Marie359099524zaj]

Hello! This is not true for me: I have a PDF that is not a scanned document. Adobe recognizes words for highlighting, during the find feature, and it is editable, yet it still says "Warning, empty page."

[rephil]

I have the same issue with Adobe Acrobat and Windows 11  it will read some pages then starts the "warning emtpy page" This is not a scaned document but a downloaded mannual