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Acrobat for Windows and Mac: Exporting PDFs

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Export to Microsoft Word

  1. Open a PDF document with Arabic content.

  2. This PDF was generated from InDesign CC2017. Arabic fonts used is a good True Type and OpenType fonts. Macintosh 10.11.2 / Acrobat DC Build: 15.23.20056.213124

  3. When exporting to MS Office format, we expect to have a decent conversion as we see with PDFs that has English content.

  4. I opened resulted Word document in MS. Word on Windows, Text Edit on Mac, Apple Preview. The result varies, but generally Arabic text doesn't convert properly, most words scrambled and fragmented.

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  • Omar Aziz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please your support, as this will increase your sales over the ME.

  • Soheyb AOUADI commented  ·   ·  Report

    طار انتظار ادراج التعرف الرقمي للأحرف للغة العربية لبرنامج adobe Acrobat DC pro يبدو أنه يجب علينا التوجه الى برامج أخرى

  • Buthaina Aloudah commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please support convert to word for Arabic language. It is a critical feature which will make a huge differenefor millionsof users who are Arab and are indeedneed thisdfeature ASAP

  • Mohamed Jajah commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please Support converting files from PDF to Word and Excel in Arabic Language

  • Sherif Hassan commented  ·   ·  Report

    يرجى دعم التصدير العربي / التعرف الضوئي على الحروف

  • Asem ElBerry commented  ·   ·  Report

    ادعموا اللغة العربية Please support Arabic exporting/OCR

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    .. الرجاء ٱدعموا اللغة العربية .
    Please, just support Arabic OCR. As soon as possible.
    the OCR not yet working

    thank you

  • محمد الغيثلي commented  ·   ·  Report

    سلام .. فقط ٱدعموا اللغة العربية . 
    Peace, just support Arabic OCR.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please enable Arabic language conversion properly. Now Acrobat separates the letters and scrambles the order of letters and sentences

  • John Adams commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am interested in converting PDFs with both English and Hebrew, so a right--to-left solution would benefit people like me too. The market for this is not just Jewish people.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    for the middle east version of Adobe it's really misses this feature, The Arabic Language conversion to MS office format or other text format....

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    When exporting to word format Arabic text doesn't convert properly, most words scrambled and fragmented.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I could not find Arabic language option so my question what is the solution?

  • fahad commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dear Adobe Admin,

    Good day, I have subscribed in Adobe under no ADB045186018UK, unfortunately I could not find Arabic language option so my question what is the solution?

  • Gerald Montagu commented  ·   ·  Report

    I think I have completely by chance found a fix - albeit that I have not tried it with Arabic text (Adobe seem entirely disinterested and utterly hopeless in relation to these exporting to Word problems). Try exporting your file from Indesign to a PDF. Then, open that PDF in Word for Windows. You should then have a fully stable Word file that you can work with (including running comparisons). The key seems to be that Word's import process works completely differently from Acrobat's export process - it will be very evident that the file is structured completely differently. The difference in the end results is so great, that it must be strongly arguable that when Adobe claim Acrobat 'exports' to Word they are effectively misselling. Please note that this fix does not seem to work if you try to open the PDF in Word for Mac (as at September 2018) because the import process is (sadly) nothing like as refined in Word for Mac as it is in the Windows version of Word.

  • Zaid Al Hilali commented  ·   ·  Report

    Open supplied PDF "Gala_2012_ar_form_indesign.pdf" in Adobe Acrobat Pro, choose File > Export To > Microsoft Word > Word document.
    Check exported Word document to find much of the content wasn't exported properly if exported at all.

  • Zaid Al Hilali commented  ·   ·  Report

    Dear Admin. I can see the "Need Info" tag up here. As I posted this Feature request/Bug Report, I will be happy to furnish you with examples or further details.

    Let me know what you need.

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