Suggestions to improve Acrobat's "Review Recognized Text" UI & functional capability
The UI of the existing "Review Recognized Text" UI (& its functionality) is outdated and BADLY needs improvement. Today, it still only has buttons to "Accept" or "Cancel" [stops the entire operation}, plus it permits the user to manually "edit" how that item will be recognized (just this time) before the user selects "Accept".
These two options themselves don't need to change, but - alone - they are TERRIBLY inadequate, particularly when reviewing a very long document in which the exact same item appears as "unrecognized' many, many times. Other OCR products offer much more helpful additional buttons, which - after all these years - Acrobat should include in its OCR "Review" feature, including specifically:
"Accept All": For this instance and for every other instance of this exact same unrecognized item in this document, "Accept" then all in the same manner as I am indicating here (by having either left unchanged the proposed suggestion or manually edited this item before I clicked this "Accept All" button).
"Skip": Do nothing about this item and move on to the next unrecognized item (I don't want to accept your incorrect suggestion, but I don't want this item "cleared", either.)
"Skip All": Same as above, but also bypass every other identification of this exact same unrecognized item throughout the remainder of this document.
Presently, the feature includes NO repeating mechanism at all and it includes NO method to simply bypass an "unrecognized" item other than to manually edit it AND, in doing so, to make certain to leave it with at least a blank space.
These UI/design/capability omissions have made reviewing "unrecognized text" -- particularly when reviewing long documents -- a genuine PITA-level chore.
I cannot imagine "why" these should be difficult to include, as other OCR products long ago have **** so. So I'm very disappointed that Adobe has ignored these needed improvements.
FWIW, my other improvement wish here is for this tool to be capable of "learning", that is to be "taught" by the User to always cause the same item to be "recognized" as the User instructs in all future documents and included an editable table of such User-instructed changes (other OCR software I've used included this capability.) I recognize this capability likely would require A LOT of additional work, so cannot be expected anytime soon.
But I believe my 3 suggestions above should be easy to include, so I urge prompt attention to implementing them.
Paul Dalton
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Paul Dalton
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Screenshot of near complete obscuring of highlighted item by Review Box.
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Paul Dalton
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One more -
Please either (1) permit the User move the location of the "Review Recognized Text" box or (2) make sure the item being reviewed is scrolled high enough that it appears higher on the screen that the top of that box.
I've experienced several instances where the highlighted item being reviewed is either partially obscured by the bottom of that box or (more frequently) is located below the bottom of that box, but is obscured by the Windows Taskbar [not your fault: it's because the Windows (11) Taskbar is doggedly refusing to "hide itself" (as it is set to do)]. So please make sue the highlighted item appears above the box or let Users move the box (alternatively, move that box farther to the left so it doesn't obscure any part of the actual document.)
Yes, I know I can scroll the document up, but when the item is totally obscured by either occurrence, knowing which way to scroll is not obvious.
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Paul Dalton
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As an example, I've attached a pdf downloaded from LG's website that - when first opened and searched for a word - did not seem to include that word, so I used Acrobat Pro's "Enhance Scanned File" capability, then I selected "Correct Recognized Text". Try it to see all of the repeated items that ought to be just "skippable", rather than the User being required to to either (a) "Accept" proposed nonsense, (b) edit the item to be just a "blank space" and then "Accept", or (c) "Cancel" the entire review operation. And be sure to notice how many times the exact same item repeats as "unrecognized" through the remainder of that pdf document.
