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Flawless_Dragonfly5EBD
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December 6, 2016
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Automatic OCR & "Enhance Scans": same thing? What options lead to least compression?

  • December 6, 2016
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Where are the options for the OCR that turns on when you click "Edit PDF" - is this the "Enhance" and "Recognize text" options under "Enhance Scans"? ( I ask because changing the options Enhanced Scans seem to alter the automatic OCR output though not consistently) Which options lead to the least compression? For example in "Enhance" I just want to "Deskew" a page but it doesnt do anything unless I also check "Recognize Text" but the later (confusingly inconsistently) lowered the quality considerably more than one would expect from mere text rotation.

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Lovekesh Garg
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Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
December 6, 2016

You need not to check Recognize text if you want to apply Compressions/Deskew.

G to Tools> Enhance scans> Enhance> Scanned document> Settings(*)

Uncheck Recognize Text and change compression setting as you want.

Hope it will resolve your issue.

Thanks.

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Flawless_Dragonfly5EBDAuthor
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December 7, 2016

Like I said unless I check Recognize Text it wont Deskew the text at all. And Compression is something I want to avoid- and Enhance Text does it drastically. Also why is there no "undo" option for Enhance Scan when there is one for OCR (and are the two the same thing)?

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Flawless_Dragonfly5EBDAuthor
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December 7, 2016

Edit: I.e. when the page "converts to text" it automatically rotate/skews (and I dont know why) but it also compresses like hell but the only options in OCR are "Recognize Text In" and "Make All Pages Editable."

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