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September 6, 2016
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Can you run OCR Text Recognition without pages rotating?

  • September 6, 2016
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I have a booklet that is in Chinese. When these pages were scanned, not all of the text was perfectly vertical/horizontal, some of the pages were not scanned and it left some of the text at an angle. So, when I run the OCR Text Recognition, it will automatically rotate the pages so the text is horizontal. This erases part of the page and leaves the corners white.

How can I run the OCR Text Recognition without it moving/rotating any of the pages?

In the attached PDF, the first page is the original and the second page is after OCR Text Recognition has run. How can I prevent this, but still run OCR?

Thanks,

Sean

           Before OCR                                                                           After OCR

You can see the after OCR PDF was turned about 2-5 degrees counter clockwise.

I want to OCR without turning.

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Correct answer Lovekesh Garg

Hi McDonough,

Sorry for the issue you are facing.

Please try PDF Output style "Searchable Image Exact" to avoid Deskew. This option will be available under Recognize Text Settings.

But Acrobat 8.0 is a quite older version which got expired years back. We have a lot more changes in latest Acrobat, and the issue you are talking about is not reproducible there.

Please try latest Acrobat DC from Download Adobe Acrobat free trial | Acrobat Pro DC

It will resolve your issue.

Thanks.

2 replies

M
MI AtlantaAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 21, 2016

Those directions are confusing when you're using Acrobat 8.0 Professional.

Is there any other info like that for 8.0?

Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
Lovekesh GargCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
September 23, 2016

Hi McDonough,

Sorry for the issue you are facing.

Please try PDF Output style "Searchable Image Exact" to avoid Deskew. This option will be available under Recognize Text Settings.

But Acrobat 8.0 is a quite older version which got expired years back. We have a lot more changes in latest Acrobat, and the issue you are talking about is not reproducible there.

Please try latest Acrobat DC from Download Adobe Acrobat free trial | Acrobat Pro DC

It will resolve your issue.

Thanks.

    M
    MI AtlantaAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 6, 2017

    Thanks for your help. That works perfectly.

      Adorobat
      Community Manager
      AdorobatCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      September 14, 2016

      Hi mr19th

      Please visit the following links which discusses the same topic:

      I am trying to figure out how to NOT have the OCR process deskew/rotate the pages. (Scan and Optimize)

      Why does OCR change page orientation and paper size? (Scan and Optimize)

      Thank You,

      Shivam

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