One-click OCR in Acrobat DC?

[Bill_Rosenblatt]

I have the latest version of Acrobat Pro DC. It used to be that OCR-ing a document -- something I have to do a lot -- was a fairly easy process. Now it's a pain in the neck:  Tools, Enhance Scans, Recognize Text, In This File, Recognize Text.  Is there a way to do this in one click instead of five?  If not, there should be...

Thanks,

- bill.

[Aaron34825598ggei]

Well, I have the same question in 2024. Six years later.

Surely there is some single click way to do OCR. It is absurd and irritating that the workflow for such a comon task is not only so many clicks, but there is no apparent way to make a single click shortcut.

I guess this is a feature they don't dogfood at Adobe.

[Aaron34825598ggei]

Note: You can now reduce it to just two clicks.

The "customize quick tools" has two separate "Scan & OCR" sections. One of which has "Recognize Text in This File" as an option.

Let the reader note, this button does not begin the OCR process, but brings up a menu which has the button that you really want "Recognize Text".

Why we can't just add "Recognize Text" to the quick tools is anyone's guess. Some say the UI designer who made that button retired in the mid 90's and no one left at Adobe knows how it works.