OCR on/off default setting in Preferences - NOT the current "sticky check box" solution
I work in prepress and have repeated problems with OCR trying to render scanned images as text when it is not desired. Obviously, there is a checkbox under Edit PDF to disable it for each document, which appears to be "sticky," i.e. Adobe remembers the last setting used, however it would be better able to turn the default behavior on or off in Preferences so OCR can be employed only when it is desired. Using Adobe Pro DC for Windows 2020. Many thanks in advance.
Joe Derhake
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Tjebbe van Tijen commented
Let's be honest... this is bad interface design.
Especially because one is at odds when changing settings (which is needed often in my case) like changing OCR language or one or both 2 other settings (replace font; make editable) ... the user is left in some default limbo... my guess is that you have to opt out of a pdf file already loaded and chose it again. A bad way of doing things.
Mind you I am working with computer from mainframe 1973 tot DOS, Windows, OSX the last decades and have used hundreds of software applications...
This is a BUG! and it should be redesigned for professional use, let alone to speak about the poor non-professionals who do get confused by this protocol.
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The standard way for doing such a thing is:
1) prompt for changing settings
2) prompt for (re)starting the OCR process.