Hi, @Awesome_Whisper8032, OK, very reasonable. I do have one favor to ask: Can you please go into the Scan & OCR Tool, then down to the Recognize Text section, and select the "In this file," and click on the gear?    This will bring up the following three options: Can you please let me know which of the three it is set at? Additionally, could you please set it to either of the other two options, perform a new scan (with OCR), and let me know about the readability quality at that point? If you have time to do the third one, I'd be grateful for that as well.    Also, for the record, when you scan, can you see the resolution at which you are scanning? Is it 200 ppi? 300 ppi?   This would be very helpful to me.   Thank you,   ... View more

Hi, @Drew5C31,  at first thought, I do not have a clue, but I also would like more information.    Since this is a new MacBook, I am going to assume it's an M4? Please verify? Also, please verify the OS #.   Also, where are these files located? Can you see other, non WEBP images (e.d., JPG, raw, PNG, etc.) and are any of these in the same folder as the WEBP images?    And lastly, have you set Apple's preferences for permission to view/access items in folders on different drives, desktop, etc.? I'm sure you've done that on your old laptop, but since this is new…? ... View more

Quick Answer: no.    An alternative: Cut out the unwanted parts after it is printed. (easiest)   Sorry that there's no way to do what you want.   ... View more

I'm really sorry but I'm at an all day conference and cannot help you today. If no one else pops in I'll see what I can do tomorrow.  again sorry    Gary  ... View more

Looking at your screenshot, I see the left two images show names and all, and the right two images do not appear to display the bottom of the image, let alone the name, label, and rating.   The images on the left are .tif files, and (according to the Preview window), the selected one is a JPG. Is this issue limited to JPG images, or is it affecting other formats as well?   Thanks for the screenshot. ... View more

Oh my, can you share a screenshot?   One other quick thought: reset your preferences.   Quit Bridge if Open. Just before clicking on Bridge in the Dock or double-clicking the application for the Mac, press Command-Option-Shift. For PCs, press Control-Alt-Shift. Then open Bridge, BUT KEEP your fingers on those keys until you see a window pop up. From the window, the options are: “Reset Preferences" and "Purge All Local Cache Files.” In your case, check both of them. ... View more

Hi, @lincgreg, off the top of my head, there are two things that can cause this.   Most common is that you've set your display to show only thumbnails. On the bottom right corner of the Content Panel, you'll see this:  Uncheck that if it's checked.  If your Content Panel is narrow, then it will be a dropdown option:   Alternatively, it can be the size of your thumbnails. Here, I am showing larger thumbnails. Note how everything can be seen. Here, I've made the thumbnails smaller. Note that the labels are still seen, but the ratings are reduced to a single star, and the number of stars is provided. Finally, at its smallest size, nothing is shown.   So, which one of these was the culprit?   ... View more

Hi, @alejandro_9317, Sadly, no.    I'm unaware of any way to get around that that is not overly complicated and requires a lot of time.   Sorry ... View more

Hi @Abeiiss, The problem with this request is that, because there is no automatic way to do it, it would require so much time and analysis to achieve, it would be much faster to manually do the same thing. That is, to take a screenshot of the various settings and email them to others, keep a running Keyword list and share that with each other, and something similar for Collections.    Please keep in mind that Bridge has never been designed to work on anything other than a single computer for a single person with direct storage, and not on a server. Heck, even having your images stored on services like Dropbox can be problematic and unreliable.   So, since you cannot "share" files with an open system, the benefits of a shared system are somewhat limited. Adobe had a shared service for several years during the Creative Suite days called Version Cue. However, it was so challenging to maintain and operate that Adobe ultimately abandoned it. You can obtain various system software packages that enable multiple people to work with a single server, but these are not cheap.   Sorry, I can't help you. ... View more

Hi @easer, it's an interesting point/question/comment that you bring up. About 40-ish years ago, I took a class in Basic, and what I learned was (despite getting an A in the course) that I do not enjoy programming. So, if there are technical reasons why Bridge has no zoom capability whatsoever, I do not have a clue.   However, from an observational standpoint, every app I can think of that is not an image enhancement app does not allow zooms beyond what its windows can display at default pixel-per-pixel levels. My 100% guess is that there needs to be some intelligence in the application to display images at specific zoom levels. Bridge has a number of features and capabilities, but intelligence is not one of them. There very well may be some browser applications that can zoom, but none that I can recall.   Let me give you a different "why in the heck not?" situation: If you take a photo, slide, or negative, and take a photo of that item to digitize it, a number of Photoshop and ACR functions just do not work. If you take a scan of that same image, they work fine. Why? A pixel is a pixel, so why should Transform not work at all in the Lightroom family (and ACR), but if it's scanned, no problem.    That makes no sense to me, but it is what it is.   I discovered this when I transferred approximately 10,000 slides into digital images via photography and encountered numerous issues while trying to enhance the images. As I was going through the images, I'd see some where I wanted to take the time to scan them. So, I did scan them, and I have almost no issues with those images, so go figure.   As I mentioned, however, if you want 100% zooming, and that's REALLY important to you, use one of the Lightroom applications. It will do what you want. ... View more

Ooops, sorry Dave. My bad.   Thanks! ... View more

Hi, @easer , it may not be obvious, but ACR is a different application then Bridge. Bridge is NOT an image enhancement application as ACR is. Rather, it is a viewer, full stop. Also, consider that the Lightroom family (Classic, Desktop, Web, Mobile) is ACR with a database.   To add to this, Bridge does not have the code to magnify an image, but it can reduce as necessary. Let's say your monitor is 2000 pixels wide. If you open an image that is 2000 pixels wide, you'll see the image at 100%. If you open an image that is 1000 pixels wide, you'll see it at 100% OF THAT IMAGE. However, it will appear as 50% of your monitor's size. It cannot zoom in. In other words, when you tap the Spacebar, you'll fill the screen with your image, but it may not be 100% viewing of that image.   If this is something that's really critical for your work, I suggest you check out Lightroom Desktop or Lightroom Classic because, as you say, ACR can do this, and, as stated, the Lightroom family is ACR with a database (and the capability to display an image at 100%).   Sorry, I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but it's the reality of what is. ... View more

Hi, @mchlaglorod,  the thing that pops into my head on things like this are two things to look into.   First: the folder or files inside that folder you are looking at have a bad character. Something like a "?" or a period in the name "my.foto.jpg," something like that. First, check the name of the folder and ensure it doesn't contain anything unique, but rather straightforward text. If the names of all of the files are the ones the camera provided, they should be OK, but maybe there's a bad image in the lot. To check for this, take half the images and put them into a different folder. Try to open each folder. If one opens and one doesn't, take the 2nd folder, divide that in half, and test again. Keep testing to see if you can narrow this down. Another thing to try is to see if your Bridge's Preferences need to be refreshed. To do this: Quit Bridge if Open. Just before clicking on Bridge in the Dock or double-clicking the application for the Mac, press Command-Option-Shift. For PCs, press Control-Alt-Shift. Then open Bridge, BUT KEEP your fingers on those keys until you see a window pop up. From the window, the options are: “Reset Preferences" and "Purge All Local Cache Files.” In your case, check both of them.   Let us know what happens. ... View more

Hi, @BrianSiano2, as you might have noticed, or maybe this is part of your observation, if you have any OCR processing going on, you can't even read your email while Acrobat is hogging the computer.   This has been a long-standing complaint and request for many years. Maybe YOUR observation may break the process open, but so far, nothing. Why can other applications share the processor, but Acrobat continues to say "MINE!"   Sorry ... View more

I can think of several things, but in this case, I'd start with this:   Reset Bridge's Prefs Quit Bridge if Open. Just before clicking on Bridge in the Dock or double-clicking the application for the Mac, press Command-Option-Shift. For PCs, press Control-Alt-Shift. Then open Bridge, BUT KEEP your fingers on those keys until you see a window pop up. From the window, the options are: “Reset Preferences" and "Purge All Local Cache Files.” In your case, check both of them.     ... View more

Hi, @Billiams, are you searching for at the right level? See the options from the drop- down menu. ... View more

That would also happen in PS as well: any time you save a JPG as a JPG, you'll increase the JPG degradation. If the original image was compressed to max, this will only make it worse.   I think the only way around this would be to save the image outside of Acrobat, open it in PS, convert it to 16-bit, save it as a TIF or PSD image, and convert the colors as you so wish, then save it as a JPG with limited (if any) compression. That should make it no worse than the original.   Alternatively, convert the image into a PNG format (which is what it should have been in the first place), and then place it into the original document.   Sorry, there are reasons for JPG images, but this is not one of them. ... View more

Hi, @vermer_5961,  can you please check and see if this shows up in the latest Beta release? (15.1) ... View more

Hi, , FWIW, I've been doing things this way for as long as I can remember. The whole issue (to me) boils down to whether it's better to do something the way it's supposed to be done, albeit with a very poor quality tool, or do it a way that works with a vastly superior tool.   To see what I'm referring to, regarding the quality of scanning. Take a photograph, B&W or color, doesn't matter. Open Image Capture (you'll find that in your Applications folder) and do whatever enhancements you feel are necessary to improve the quality of the scan and save that to your desktop. Now, scan the same image with the scanning software that came with your scanner (make sure you're using the latest drivers; companies that make scanners do not do a good job of checking if your software is up to date; you have to look at their website). Now, scan the same image and enhance it as best as you can. Save that to your desktop.    Finally, compare the two images. There is no question that your scanner's software will do a better job. Look at the regions where there is a gradation from dark to light, look at folds in fabrics, and look at the clouds. Image Capture cannot capture that properly.    Simply, the needs of an excellent scan are pushed to the limit when it comes to OCR. Why rely upon dreadful software when the result of a scan may determine whether all of the text in your document is at risk?   Inefficient? Not at all when you consider what you're trading for to achieve greater accuracy for that slight bit of extra processing.   ... View more

One important question, @danw42365919, can you scan via your scanner's software?   Here's the deal, on the Mac, when scanning directly from Acrobat, you are shunted to Apple's Image Capture software. Unfortunately, Image Capture is a major piece of **** scanning software. It is at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to scan quality and getting to a good quality image.   I encourage you to continue scanning with your scanner’s software, save your scans in the TIF format, and leave the files on your desktop (or wherever convenient). Then, you can drag the files onto the Acrobat icon in the Dock. If you save the files as TIF images, Acrobat will automatically OCR them; there's nothing else you have to do. If you drag more than one file onto the Acrobat icon, Acrobat will ask you if you want all of these files merged into one document or to remain separate.  (If you save in any other format (e.g., jpg), the auto OCR dynamic will not happen, and you'll need to add to your workload by adding an OCR step to your activities.)   Some extra tips and bits of information: A full-page, 300 ppi, 8-bit TIF file will be about 8 MB. (16-bit will be about 16 MB); once they are processed into a PDF, they will drop down to about 100-150 kb, so do not worry about the size. Assuming that you've done a pre-scan to set the Levels settings to get a clean image and you're doing a stack of pages from the same source, there's no need to do subsequent pre-scans. The first scan will be “document.tif.” The 2nd document will be “document (2).tif,” the third will be “document (3).tif.”, etc. When you process those in Acrobat, the first scanned page will end at the end of the PDF as the last page. You can either fix this in the "Organize Pages" or, before processing in Acrobat, change the name in the Finder for “document.tif” to “document (1).tif.*  * There's no way around this because it is up to Finder or Explorer to name it, not the scanning software. FWIW, I use this latter approach.   As long as you'll be using better quality scanning software, here's a blog I wrote for Adobe with some tips on getting the best quality scan for OCR.   https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-community-professionals/scanning-clean-searchable-pdfs/m-p/4785435?page=1#M89   Good luck! ... View more

@skilled_experts7811, as I stated, I am not the person who can write scripts or other mechanisms to do what you want. One thing you really need to do is to explain in greater detail what you are expecting to happen. I put forth a simple direction of this happening during the Save steps, but I have no idea if that could actually happen. Perhaps if you could elaborate on ways that you'd like to work and/or what to expect might be more helpful to someone who can write scripts.   Perhaps you could add the keyword in the document title.   Again, noone knows what you want to happen or how. You have just related the final result. Many years ago, there was a cartoon of some scientist-like folks in front of a chalkboard filled with complext mathemantical equations. Then toward the bottom of the chalkboard was a small box saying "miracle occured" followed by the answer to the equation. Anyone who can help you need more information.   Good luck ... View more

Hi, @skilled_experts7811, one quick comment: my auto-correct was pretty bad yesterday. Example: when I stated that "I've been doing OCR for over 3yearsasand InI know what can be expected," that should have read "…30 years…" (how did I not catch that???).   One thing you did not respond to is when and how you expect that this transfer would occur? During the OCR process? During the Save Process? Also, what do you suppose would happen if you had two of the keywords in the same document? How would any automated function process that?   The more I think about this, the more I think you should check out one of the PC versions of Default Folder mentioned above. That gives you absolute certainty of what's going where and there will not be any surprises. Let me show you the two ways that I rely upon DF daily. You'll need to check out the applications I mentioned above to see if they offer the same kind of functionality that I depend upon.   As I mentioned, DF keeps a list of the last 20 folders you've visited. So, if you're in the middle of some major organization, you can easily go to any of these recent 20 during the Save event. If the desired folder is not showing, manually go to it, and it will appear at the top of the queue. If you need to constantly go to several folders over and over, you can save them in the Favorites section. These are permanent in the list unless you remove them.    Default Folder has other capabilities, but these are the ones that I rely upon daily. I also think that these are the ones that would be the best (and most reliable) for your needs.   ... View more

Hi, @skilled_experts7811,  Let me see if I understand you properly. There is a word in the file, let's say "earthquakes," and when saving, you want some function to seek that word and if its found, place that file into the Earthquakes folder?   On one level, I'm not sure I'd trust that approach because of the inherent mistakes that OCR incurses*, there could be an error in the text making your auto-save mechanism unable to find your keywords. You do not state if you are on a PC or Mac, but occasionally, I have the same need as you. What I do on my Mac is that I have a 3 rd party item of software called Default Folder**. When I perform repetitive tasks, such as scanning, OCR, and image saving, using Default Folder, I've access to a drop-down list of recent folders I’ve used or permanently saved folders that I often need to return to. This is used during saving and occurs very quickly. I am unsure if there is a comparable application available for the PC. Also, if this is so completely not what you’re interested in, I apologize ahead of time for not being able to help you. There are several individuals in these forums who can create amazing scripts, but be aware that no script can successfully find a word by context or meaning. So, if the OCR bungles it, the document will not be found.   *I've been doing OCR for over 3yearsasand InI know what can be expected. The success can be improved by using good scanning technques, but many folks are unaware, and/or do not bother to learn these approaches. Nonetheless, there can be errors , regardless of how good your orginal scans are. If you are curious, please check out this blog I wrote for Adobe a number of years ago:  https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-community-professionals/scanning-clean-searchable-pdfs/m-p/4785435?page=1#M89   **I did a quick searconiGooglele and found this for PC: Several tools offer similar functionality, including Listary, Quicksilver, and "Alfred." I have not used any of these and cannot recommend any of them. ... View more

Hi, @Joseph374224441v8g,  No problem.   Go to your Window, menu and check the Tools option. That should do it.   Let me know if this solves your problem.     ... View more

Hi, @JayZoop, I’m sorry you didn’t read what I wrote because I clearly said that. Several times. ... View more

What is your OS and what release? Thanks ... View more

@Dave Creamer of IDEAS, Yes, for archival purposes, LRC is an excellent tool. All of my important photos go into LRC becuase of it's excellent Keywording, image enhancement, and printing capability.   BTW, @Mr. Productive, I just had a chance to look at this video. While the intended subject matter may not seem like it will help you, it is one of the best examinations I've seen on the subject of image sharpness and quality and the dependency of the same on how the image is being viewed. Well worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5B48ksp84Q ... View more

@Dave Creamer of IDEAS, is correct that you can save PDFs directly from Photoshop. However, these can be two three times larger than if they are done direclty from Acrobat or InDesign. Also, they cannot do multipage PDFs. It will be one-page-at-a-time in PS. ... View more