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    218 comments  ·  Acrobat for Windows and Mac » Scanning and OCR  ·  Admin →
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    Planned  ·  gudisa responded

    We already considered this request. We will update you once the team prioritise it and implement it.

    Thanks.

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    Fares ALH commented  · 

    Adobe Acrobat is considered the professional standard for PDF documents, yet it still does not support Arabic OCR. This is a serious gap.

    Arabic is used by hundreds of millions of people and by governments, courts, universities, libraries, companies, researchers, and students across many countries. There are millions of scanned Arabic documents that need to be searchable, editable, accessible, and properly archived. Without Arabic OCR, Acrobat Pro is incomplete for Arabic-speaking users.

    This is especially disappointing because older versions of Acrobat handled Arabic better in some cases, while newer versions removed or failed to preserve this capability. Users who pay for Acrobat Pro should not be forced to buy separate software just to recognize Arabic text.

    Arabic OCR should be treated as a priority, not a minor feature request. At minimum, Acrobat should support:

    Printed Arabic OCR
    Searchable Arabic PDFs
    Export to Word while preserving right-to-left text
    Mixed Arabic-English documents
    Arabic tables and official documents
    Accurate handling of numbers and punctuation in RTL layout

    Adobe already supports many languages and complex document workflows. A language as important and widely used as Arabic should not be excluded.

    Please add full Arabic OCR support to Adobe Acrobat, or restore the Arabic OCR capability that existed or worked better in previous versions. This feature is essential for millions of users and long overdue.