Disable Automatic OCR (Adobe)

Modified on Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 4:42 PM

To disable Automatic OCR in Adobe, as user may receive a pop-up about it and not want to use it:


* Edit > Preferences... > Reading
* Reading Order: "Use reading order in raw print stream"
* Page vs Document: "Only read the currently visible pages"


https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/i-need-to-turn-off-automatic-ocr-in-pdf-edit-there-s-a-reference-to-the-quot-right-pane-quot-and/td-p/9218157?page=1


https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-scanned-pdfs.html 

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