How do I OCR a page that already has searchable text?

[ThewondersofAdobe]

The wonders with Adobe never cease.  Apparently, it won't OCR a page even if one little word on the page is already searchable.  Other programs which utilize pdfs don't have this issue.  Rather, I constantly marvel at how inferior Adobe is to handling its pdf creations.  Does anyone know a way to make Acrobat OCR the rest of the page?

[ThewondersofAdobe]

The error i get is:

"Acrobat could not perform recognition (OCR) on this page because:

This page contains renderable text."

It must just be pure genius of Adobe I don't understand to make things so difficult.

[Bernd Alheit]

Save the page as TIFF file. Create a PDF from the TIFF file. Perform OCR on the new PDF.

[ThewondersofAdobe]

Hi.  Exporting it to TIFF and back to PDF dramatically worsens the quality.  Is there a way instead, perhaps, to flatten the page so that Adobe no longer considers it rendered text?

This is pathetic of Adobe.

[Bernd Alheit]

‌Flatten it with save as TIFF.

[ThewondersofAdobe]

You're an Adobe Certified Professional? Saving to TIFF and converting back to PDF severely reduces quality.  I have a better idea:  why don't you get your company to handle OCRing pages that already have renderable text?  Clearly it can be done, since companies like Nuance's Omnipage an handle it with no difficulty whatseover.  Adobe is inferior at working with a format it invented, yet still charges plenty for its defective product.

[ThewondersofAdobe]

On top of that, converting to TIFF blows up the file size, wasting space and straining the hard drive.

[CtDave]

"ACP" = Adobe Community Professional.

Good to know - PDF has been an ISO Standard for some time now.

Just a nattering but the phrase "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" comes to mind.

Be well