Adobe Acrobat is considered the professional standard for PDF documents, yet it still does not support Arabic OCR. This is a serious gap.

Arabic is used by hundreds of millions of people and by governments, courts, universities, libraries, companies, researchers, and students across many countries. There are millions of scanned Arabic documents that need to be searchable, editable, accessible, and properly archived. Without Arabic OCR, Acrobat Pro is incomplete for Arabic-speaking users.

This is especially disappointing because older versions of Acrobat handled Arabic better in some cases, while newer versions removed or failed to preserve this capability. Users who pay for Acrobat Pro should not be forced to buy separate software just to recognize Arabic text.

Arabic OCR should be treated as a priority, not a minor feature request. At minimum, Acrobat should support:

Printed Arabic OCR
Searchable Arabic PDFs
Export to Word while preserving right-to-left text
Mixed Arabic-English documents
Arabic tables and official documents
Accurate handling of numbers and punctuation in RTL layout

Adobe already supports many languages and complex document workflows. A language as important and widely used as Arabic should not be excluded.

Please add full Arabic OCR support to Adobe Acrobat, or restore the Arabic OCR capability that existed or worked better in previous versions. This feature is essential for millions of users and long overdue.

What's the point of paying Subscription if you don't want to support one of the major language? .

we hope that.

It is must have

I cannot imagine that all those languages are included in the OCR list and Arabic isn't!

It is a crucial feature and will positively affect the Adobe CC subscriptions to expand in the Middle East if this has been accomplished!

a mast have
It's dire emergency

if ABBYY created an Arabic language option for Scan & OCR in its software, and Adobe couldn't, then it is a big plus for ABBYY.

أضم صوتي لهذا الطلب. كشخص يتعامل مع عدد كبير من المستندات والكتب الممسوحة ضوئياً باللغة العربية، فإن عدم وجود دعم لـ OCR في Acrobat يمثل عائقاً كبيراً في سير العمل.

نحن نضطر للجوء إلى أدوات وبرامج أخرى أقل تكاملاً لهذه الوظيفة الأساسية. من المخيب للآمال رؤية هذه الميزة "مخطط لها" (Planned) منذ عام 2018 دون أي تقدم ملموس. هل يمكننا الحصول على تحديث حقيقي وصادق حول الجدول الزمني لإضافة هذه الميزة الحيوية؟

This is actually really annoying. Please make arabic available. Its the age of A.I. How is this not available yet

It's dire emergency

critical

Adding my voice, just paid for Pro to OCR Arabic Text, gutted it's not possible.

Bu nedir arkadaş ya. Adamlar cevap verme ihtiyacı bile hissetmiyor. Belli ki politikaları böyle. Muhtemelen bu işi halletmişler ve kendileri kullanıyorlardır. Basit bir şekilde bir ayarla açabilecekleri konutu aktif hale getirmiyorlar. Yazıklar olsun.

can't believe that the request to add Arabic to OCR has been under review since 2017!!!!!!!

Mainly paid for Adobe Pro to use OCR for Arabic !!! It's not available.
going to wait for a few days if not added i'll cancel subscription.

how adobe is not considering Arabic OCR while more than 30% of the world are arabian. Acrobate without Arabic worth nothing.

@Mohamed Ramadan, Can you please direct us to where we access these settings you shared here, I mean where we can see these settings?!

To be honest, it was strange to me as i used to edit Arabic scanned documents with no issue. But i couldn't do it anymore once I've switched my device and installed a fresh copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro.

However, i could make it work after unchecking both of below options. (Maybe the first is enough)

Adobe without Arabic OCR is not worth the money

Since 2017, this platform has still not supported Arabic, which feels dismissive of the 111.36 million native Arabic speakers. We hope this issue will be resolved by early 2025!