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No way to correct OCR errors in Acrobat pro DC

There is a major problem with OCR in Acrobat Pro CD. I have recognized (OCR) text in many documents. They still contain a lot of recognition errors in the hidden text used for search. When I try to use the function/tool "Correct Recognized text" (translated from Norwegian), I get a message saying that there are no suspected errors. It is not possible to correct the remaining errors. This is just stupid, there is no 100% correct OCR program, there are lots of errors in the recognized text. There must be a way to fix the remaining errors, but your technical support tells me that it is not possible. Until this is fixed, I can not use the product.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    2 years later and still no fix for this issue...

  • Paul Dalton commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm using Acrobat Pro 2019. I'm having this same issue.

    I've attached a copy of my original "scan to pdf" of a document (an old Trig table), as well as that same scan file after it has been "Optimized" by Acrobat.

    I've also attached a Word document into which I copied/pasted several of the numbers from column 8 on the Logarithms page of the pdf file.

    As the Word doc shows, each of these copied items has some OCR mistake(s) that should be corrected, but that does not get reported when "Correct Recognized Text" is selected.

    Looking for a solution, I came upon this thread and I tried the recommendation of checking the "Check Review Recognize Text" option.

    However, all that did was to show display a very faded view of just the image. I couldn't "do" anything with it, not even copy any of what appears to be text. Looking closely, the "text" in that faded image does not have any of the OCR errors that show up when "copy/paste" is used on the pdf file.

    Isn't there SOME way to display and edit the content of the actual hidden text file?

    Paul Dalton

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    How the **** does "Check Review Recognize Text" solve the problem if you can't correct the ******* errors even if you can see them you ******* idiot

  • AdminGaurav Maheshwari (Software Engineer, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi,

    There is also a functionality of Review Recognize Text.
    You can enable it via
    Tools -> Enhance Scans --> Recognize Text -->Correct Recognize Text --> Check Review Recognize Text.

    Can you please try this and let us know if this solves your problem.

    Regards,
    Gaurav Maheshwari