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jrvcr
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May 12, 2017
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Can't OCR, and "Convert to text" missing

  • May 12, 2017
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Acrobat DC Standard fully patched on Windows 10 v1603 fully patched. Newbie user, and a newbie question, I'm sure.

What I've read here, for example--

Edit scanned PDFs, Adobe Acrobat DC

--is that when I click Edit with a scanned PDF, the first page is automatically OCR'd by default, unless I've clicked the "Convert to Image" button, which turns off that behavior. I've not found any articles that include a screenshot, which would make it a lot easier.

Problem is, there is no "Convert to Text" button OR "Convert to Image" button in the right pane to click. It is not present in the only right pane I see, whose title is "Format".

I can export the PDF to Word, and the text is OCR'd and editable. It's just not OCR'd and editable within Acrobat.

What is the secret?

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Correct answer jrvcr

Found it. Apparently the auto OCR was not well received, nor was having the program remember whether "Convert to Text" or "Convert to Image" was last selected. So OCR'ing was moved to a completely separate "Enhance Scans" tool.

Adobe needs to update their documentation on this.

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jrvcrAuthorCorrect answer
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May 12, 2017

Found it. Apparently the auto OCR was not well received, nor was having the program remember whether "Convert to Text" or "Convert to Image" was last selected. So OCR'ing was moved to a completely separate "Enhance Scans" tool.

Adobe needs to update their documentation on this.

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