Acrobat DC (Cloud) after OCR I can't see the original image

[franklinpoole]

I have thousands of pages of very old documents that were typewritten that I have scanned. I just allowed Acrobat DC to OCR one of them. Now I can only see the file with the OCR'ed text (which is frequently very wrong). I cannot, after two hours of trying, find any way to display the original image. I'm very frustrated. Every google or adobe search for something like (display original image) comes up blank. In earlier (better in my mind) versions of Adobe it was EASY!

Why is this so hard!? Just show me the original image! HOW?????

[Bernd Alheit]

What OCR options do you use?

[franklinpoole]

I simply opened Acrobat Pro DC and clicked the 'edit' tool. OCR ran and now I can find no way to send the OCR to the back and leave the image displaying. Due to the nature of these images the OCR isn't that great so I just want to see the original image. In the Old Acrobat Pro it was simple.

[Bernd Alheit]

Click on "Revert to Image".

[franklinpoole]

I wish it were that easy. You cannot 'revert to image' once the OCRed text has been saved. It's greyed out. There is a setting somewhere, I just can't find it even with the Adobe Help....

[Bernd Alheit]

The image is not more available.

[franklinpoole]

I really have trouble believing that Adobe would delete the picture after running OCR. Look at the results above. They're beyond repair. Somehow I should be able to get the image back.

[Priyanja]

Hi Franklin,

The image is no longer available after save.

Edit PDF runs "Editable Text & Images" OCR. This type of OCR replaces the original scanned image with the OCR'ed output.

To make the document searchable and also retain the original scanned image, you should use  "SearchableImage"OCR option available under Recognize Text option.

Refer Scan documents to PDF, Adobe Acrobat  for more details.

Regards,

Priyanka