When Acrobat performs OCR on a large PDF, it repeatedly brings its window to the foreground and takes keyboard focus, apparently each time it moves to the next page.

This prevents me from working in another application, such as Microsoft Excel, while OCR is running. Every few seconds, focus switches from Excel back to Acrobat. Any typing may then be interrupted or accidentally entered into Acrobat.

OCR is a long-running background operation, particularly for documents containing hundreds or thousands of pages. Acrobat should not activate its window or take keyboard focus merely because it has moved to the next page.

Steps to reproduce

Open a large scanned PDF in Acrobat Pro on Windows.
Select Scan & OCR and start OCR for the entire document.
Switch to another application, such as Microsoft Excel.
Begin typing or working in that application.
Observe that Acrobat repeatedly comes to the foreground and takes focus as it progresses through the PDF.

Expected result

Acrobat should perform OCR in the background. It may update its taskbar progress indicator or show a notification when the operation finishes, but it should not activate its window or take keyboard focus.

Actual result

Acrobat repeatedly takes focus every few seconds, making the computer effectively unusable for other work until OCR completes.

Requested fix

Please change OCR processing so that page changes do not activate the Acrobat window. Alternatively, add an option such as “Run OCR in background” or “Do not bring Acrobat to the foreground during processing.”