SO, I know that Acrobat is built on 25+year old code, but it's time to look at the biggest issue I have - that Acrobat is hopeless for batch operations because they are a clunky hack on top of an application that was never designed to work that way.

Now I'm doing OCR on 36 files. It's running in the background, but I have plenty of CPU time free. Can I get on with editing some other PDF while this is running? NO, because Acrobat is busy. I have to use a different computer. If you have acrobat Pro as your default PDF viewer you can't even open any PDFs on your system while a batch is running!

What we want is a system where batch tasks are purely async, running in the background so you can continue to use the application for other tasks while your batch processes are running. It's not like this is 1995 any more, give us a modern, multithreaded application please.