How to permanently disable automatic OCR in Adobe DC

[jderhake]

Hi All, I've searched the community to see if this issue has been raised before but it hasn't, at least in this context. I work in prepress with scanned music and have repeated problems with OCR trying to render the images as text when it is not desired. Obviously, there is a checkbox under Edit PDF to disable it for each document, but I would like to be able to turn the default behavior to NOT perform automatic OCR. Any sugguestions? Using Adobe Pro DC for Windows 2020. Many thanks in advance.

[Amal.]

Hi jderhake

We are sorry for the trouble. This is the product behavior and we can not permanently turn off the OCR.

The OCR is turned on by default. Therefore, when you open a scanned document for editing, the current page is converted to editable text. Depending on whether you want to convert your scanned documents to editable text or not, you can turn off/on the automatic OCR option.

• In the right pane, click the Revert to Image option. From next time, Acrobat won't automatically run OCR and convert a scanned document to editable text."

You may also use the Adobe wish form (https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html) to file the request to permanently turn off the OCR with the product team.

Regards

Amal

[jderhake]

Thank you for the reply, Arnal. Turning off the OCR option appears to be "sticky," meaning that Adobe seems to remember the setting from the last open document. It would be preferable to have a default behaviour so that OCR could be used as it is needed. I appreciate the link to the developers and will suggest this to them.