How to OCR entire document at once?

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Hello,I switched to Acrobat DC and am having a lot of problems. I think the older version was easier to use, but maybe that is just me.I do not like Acrobat OCRing pages one-by-one as I scroll through them. It is disruptive and I would rather have it OCR the entire document at once, like Adobe 11 Professional did. So, I open a document and click "recognize text." It scans the whole document and converts it to searchable images. HOWEVER, when I begin scrolling page-by-page through the document, it still re-scans each page, one-by-one, disrupting my work. How can I fix this and make it like Adobe 11 Pro?Eli

Lovekesh Garg · Answer

We still have the same functionality with improved quality and feature in Acrobat DC.

- Open PDF you want to OCR

- Go to Tools> Enhance Scans> Recognize Text> In this file

- Click Settings and change OCR language or output style if required (optional)

- Click Recognize text

It will run OCR on complete document in 1 run with searchable Image Exact by default, which you can change if you want.

You can also reach to the location by searching keyword "Recognize Text" in tool search area.

Hope it will resolve your issue. Please feel free to ask anything you want.

Thanks.

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