Japanese OCR produces garbled text with "Searchable Image" on macOS
I am experiencing a problem with Japanese OCR in Adobe Acrobat.
When I run text recognition on a scanned Japanese PDF and select "Searchable Image", the page itself looks normal, but when I select and copy the recognized text, the result is garbled.
For example, I get text like:
「譛ｬ譖ｸ縺ｯ縲∵叛騾∝､ｧ蟄ｦ縺ｮ隰帷ｾｩ逕ｨ縺ｫ菴懈縺励◆縲∽ｼ夊ｨ亥ｭｦ縺ｮ蝓ｺ譛ｬ譖ｸ縺ｧ縺吶」
It should be recognized as:
「本書は､放送大学の講義用に作成した､会計学の基本書です｡」
The same document works correctly when I use "Editable Text and Images" instead.
Environment:
- OS: macOS 26.6.2
- Acrobat: 2026.002.21901 (Continuous Release)
- App language: Japanese
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