This is not an idea. It is a report of a serious, newly introduced bug in your expensive software.

File -> Create -> PDF from Scanner worked fine for me for several years with my Epson WF-3540 printer/scanner, several levels and versions of Adobe Acrobat products - up to Adobe Acrobat Pro DC - and my old Win7 laptop.

Last week I finally got around to deploying my new Win10 laptop and installing Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Today I needed to scan some letters to PDF and was surprised and disappointed.

My usual "File -> Create -> PDF from Scanner" brings up the "Scan & OCR" page with sections:

Scanner

(Epson WF-3540 is selected)

Scan using

"Default settings" radio button is pre-selected and cannot be de-selected

"Show scanner's user interface" is greyed out.

(The settings "gear icon" brings up a different page of options)

Or use a predefined scan setting

All of these options such as "Autodetect Color Mode" are greyed out. They cannot be selected.

My former procedure (with myWin7 computer) was to select one of the predefined settings and run with it. No problem.

Today, hitting Scan brings up a "What do you want to scan?" dialog box.

I change paper source from Flatbed to Document Feeder
I select the "Black and white picture of text" radio button
I select the "Adjust the quality of the scanned picture" hyperlink and increase Resolution from 100 to 300 DPI and hit OK (which changes the radio button selection to "Custom Settings"
I change page size from Legal to "Letter 8.5 x 11"

I hit Scan

IMPORTANT: There is no way to save these four steps! Must be repeated for every scanning event.

This is an unacceptable downgrade.

I chatted with a remote session with a support agent who concluded "That's the way it's intended to work in the latest edition". And "It cannot be fixed".

I submitted a request for assistance to the Adobe Support Community and received this reply from Amal:
"We are sorry for the trouble and the experience. Please use the Adobe wish form (https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html) to share your feedback with the engineering team."

I replied to Amal on the Adobe Support Community:

"Hello Amal. Thank you for your reply. You are not the one who sets policy or fixes software bugs, so I will follow your suggestion, but please pass this comment up the line.

Requests to fix newly introduced bugs are not "wishes". I'm somewhat put off by Adobe calling it that.
This expensive program used to work. The same program - with the same scanner - with only a change of computer and operating system - now has a serious bug.
Windows 10 is not new. I held off to beyond the last possible moment to adopt Windows 10. Adobe Acrobat Pro DC is not new.

This bug ought to have been fixed by now, and fixing it should not be treated as if a suggested new feature."

I do not want to cancel my subscription but I pay too much to accept this kind of downgraded performance.

Your response is requested.

Thank you,
Robert Peruzzi

Adobe Acrobat won't work. I've spent 3 hours with two different tech support people, with them coming into my system. They don't seem to understand how OCR is supposed to work. They tell me that adobe thinks my handwriting is an image. Too bad. It's my fault. That is ludicrous. I thought I just didn't know how to do the final steps of a conversation to text. I know that OCR works. I just can't get it to work on my laptop with Adobe Acrobat DC that I pay for monthly.

Can anyone help, who understand how it is supposed to work?

Thank you.

The mother-tongue of the people living in the state of Odisha is Odia language. Around 45 million (http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/censusinfoindia_pca/) of people in India and abroad speak Odia language. Odia is a primarily spoken language in the Indian states of Odisha, parts of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Odia is the official language of Odisha and the second official language of Jharkhand.

The Union Cabinet of India classified Odia as classical language on 20-February-2014. (https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=103967). So far Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia have been declared as classical languages in Indian subcontinent.

Therefore Adobe is requested to include this classical language ODIA in their OCR engine. It will be beneficial for Adobe and so too for the 45 million speaking Odia people.

Thank you

Greek OCR should be fixed as it seems broken in the newer versions.
Below you will find two paragraphs. 1st is from PDFXEdit (free tool) and second is from Adobe Acrobat 2019.021.20056 (costs two virgins and a first born child). It is expected for such an expensive software to make this process straight forward.

PDFXEdit:
Τα ίδια κεφάλαια, και τα κέρδη προ φόρων της εταιρείας Α για τη χρήση 2018 είναι €150.000 και
€5Ο.ΟΟΟ αντίστοιχα. Πώς θα διαµορφωθούν αυτά τα δύο μεγέθη (απαντήστε με τη χρήση πίνακα) αν
υπάρχουν οι εξής παρατηρήσεις του ορκωτού ελεγκτή:
1. Η εταιρεία είχε δημιουργήσει προβλέψεις για αποζημίωση προσωπικού, καταρχήν €10.000
το 2012 και €5.000 επιπλέον το 2015. Σύµφωνα με µελέτη, η πρόβλεψη αυτή, στο τέλος της
κλειόμενης χρήσης έπρεπε να ανέρχεται σε €20.000, από τα οποία €4.000 να αφορούν την
κλειόμενη χρήση.
2. Η εταιρεία δεν διενήργησε κατά τα τελευταία δύο έτη αποσβέσεις επί δύο παγίων (ετήσιου
συντελεστού απόσβεσης 15%). Η αξία κτήσης των παγίων ήταν €13.500

Adobe Acrobat.
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[BUG]
Description: After initially correcting the orientation of the PDF and then highlighting where needed, I then decided to use the find tool to find a word in my PDF. Unfortunately, the PDF was an image and so Acrobat had to enhance the scan to try and search for the word. After enhancing, the page orientation stayed the same but the highlight seemed to rotate itself in the orientation of the original document and not the corrected orientation as shown below.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Have a file with text that is scanned in vertically and is viewed as an image, not a document.
2) Rotate the document clockwise or counterclockwise depending on which way produces the appropriate orientation.
3) Highlight some text using the freehand highlighter tool
4) Use ctrl+F to find a word in the document
5) Let acrobat enhance the scan on all pages so that it can search for words.

Environment: Windows 10 Pro, Version 1809, Build 17763.805
Expected Result: The Highlight to stay in the appropriate orientation
Observed result: The highlight rotating back to the original orientation of the document