How to use Adobe Acrobat DC (Pro) as a OCR and translate to English?

[at-tcrumpen]

I work in a company that regularly deals with a lot of multi-language based clients and there are times where we need to scan documents in other languages but due to the companies policy. We need to save the documents in English as well as their original language.

I discovered that Adobe Acrobat DC apparently has the ability to extract text from 'images' (The OCR part) but also has the ability to translate documents into English. However i couldn't really find any tutorials on how to do this and i'd like to know Acrobat has this functionality before we fork out thousands of pounds to purchases the licenses we need.

We deal with a variety of languages ranging from French to Arabic; i've found that although free software seems to do well with Latin based alphabet languages (French, Spanish etc.) when it comes to Languages which have different alphabets entirely (Mandarin, Arabic, Russian etc.) the software tends to be very hit and miss

Any help would be much appreciated

[Steve Cordero · Accepted solution]

Acrobat  is available in multiple languages for usage but it does NOT translate language of the document text.

Acrobat supports scanning many languages but Arabic is not one of them.  It is best to check the Scan settings interface to see which ones meet your needs and which languages are not covered. 

[Zaid Al Hilali]

We have requested Adobe to support Arabic in Acrobat's OCR. It would be good if you vote for this feature at this Adobe request a feature page.

[Test Screen Name]

I think I maybe understand. Acrobat OCR has a language choice and you assume it is for translation. It is not for translation, but it is very important.

You must select the language which you are trying to OCR or it is unlikely to work well, or at all. If a language is not shown, OCR is not available.