When I export my PDF with images of text... the doc file just has images of text... isnt Optical Character Recognition supposed to convert this?

[kevini11930635]

When I export my PDF with images of text... the doc file just has images of text... isnt Optical Character Recognition supposed to convert this?

[MichaelKazlow · Accepted solution]

OCR is not part of the Document Cloud PDF services. Even in Acrobat you just explicitly run OCR it does not happen automatically when exporting an image. I believe a recent version of Acrobat did do automatic OCR on opening image files but I turned off that feature as it can ruin as many PDFs as it works successfully on. I only use OCR when I need it.

[kevini11930635]

So how do I run it manually?

[try67]

You're wrong. ExportPDF does offer OCR: Using OCR in Adobe Export PDF, Document Cloud, Reader

[kevini11930635]

Then this is super misleading...

[try67]

I agree it's not very clear (what does "edits" mean, exactly?), but how is it misleading? As I wrote, it should be possible to perform OCR.

[MichaelKazlow]

Do you have Acrobat or just Cloud PDF Services

[kevini11930635]

Cloud PDF which advertises this feature... that is why I bought it.