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/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/td-p/9554461 Nov 26, 2017 Nov 26, 2017
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I bring up a PDF page and reading says Warning, empty page. What do I do?
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Adobe Employee , Nov 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017 AkanchhaS • Adobe Employee , Nov 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017Could you please confirm, how have you been trying to open the PDF file? Is it using the Adobe Reader DC desktop application or on the web?
Or if you are using the "Read Out Loud" feature and it says the page is blank, I assume that the pdf file that you are working on is a scanned document or contain the image only which doesn't contain the real characters?
Adobe Reader doesn't support OCR, so if its scanned or image document it wont run the OCR and will detect the document as blank
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Could you please confirm, how have you been trying to open the PDF file? Is it using the Adobe Reader DC desktop application or on the web?
Or if you are using the "Read Out Loud" feature and it says the page is blank, I assume that the pdf file that you are working on is a scanned document or contain the image only which doesn't contain the real characters?
Adobe Reader doesn't support OCR, so if its scanned or image document it wont run the OCR and will detect the document as blank page.
You have to use the Adobe Acrobat DC for such files.
Hope this answers your query.
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/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554463#M35284 Nov 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017
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Than you for your response. I scanned a typed page using the scan feature on a copier at work. From your response it sounds like it reads it as an OCR image which adobe reader doesn’t support. I’m using Adobe reader D C which I downloaded free and the read out load feature in the software. I learned something new today from your response. Thanks.
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Adobe Employee ,/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554464#M35285 Nov 28, 2017 Nov 28, 2017
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Glad to hear that it was helpful for you. And yes you got it correctly, if its a scanned document and you are accessing it in Reader then the read out loud wont work.
Let us know if any further assistance is required.
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Community Beginner ,/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554465#M35286 Jan 13, 2018 Jan 13, 2018
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I have read earlier responses about these issue with read out loud. but i am yet to have a head way with it.
I am using Adobe acrobat reader DC 18.009.20050 on windows 10 and i lunch it as a desktop application, but i am still getting these same message "Warning, Empty Page" Kindly assist accordingly please.
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Adobe Employee ,/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554466#M35287 Jan 29, 2018 Jan 29, 2018
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I apologize for the delay in response.
I assume the scenario is same in your case too. The files on which you have been getting "Empty Page" warnings must be the scanned once.
Have you checked any other document or any doc that you have created?
Can you share anyone of the document with us? We would test the same at our end as well.
"You can share the file with us via email. And you can send it to the email that is shared via private message. Please do mention your forum thread in the subject"
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/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554467#M35288 Jul 06, 2018 Jul 06, 2018
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I installed Adobe Acrobat reader against my better judgement since it's been my experience that it is bloated, slow, and with many issues. - Well, it has a prettier UI now, but it's still as 'wonky' as ever..
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• FIRST: the read aloud settings required serious configuration on system and the program itself..
THEN ->>>> The Read Aloud pauses between words and there's no fix or work around(Yes I used many PDF files to test). I reinstalled, adjusted settings, checked updates..etc.. nothing works.
• SECOND: "Warning Empty Page" happens when the first page of a book/tech-book is scanned for its' cover bind.. yet the rest of the PDF is in selectable text. This is normal for Tech books to have images for the cover display. yet Read Aloud refuses to read the current page as it's too poorly programmed to realize I don't want it to readpages 1 or 0 or 2,3,4,5,6,7,8. etc but page 10..it defaults to page 1 no matter what.WHY IS THIS SO POORLY MADE ?!
..I have been googling for 1 hour now to fix both problems, ADOBE support has no idea how to fix this and google shows ALOT of people have these issues.
..I knew I would regret using Adobe Acrobat.Please ADOBE, fix this. Thank You.
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/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/13451639#M96670 Dec 28, 2022 Dec 28, 2022
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Same issue here, not OCR but an actual PDF document and it says 'Warning Empty Page" typical of an Adobe product, lots of well designed things and then a bunch of poorly designed features that everyone else who has the budget software has done well, what is up with that Adobe?
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/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/pdf-page-and-reading-says-warning-empty-page/m-p/9554468#M35289 Jan 17, 2019 Jan 17, 2019
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I am using LiveCycle Designer ES4 with Adobe Acrobat DC on Windows 10.
I'm developing dynamic PDFs and I was able to make my PDF being readable after print / flattening my PDF using Adobe PDF Converter. But, I'm trying to make it readable while filling the PDF. Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer, I modify the information within the Accessibility palette to have Screen Reader Precedence to the appropriate value. Also I have the Form Properties > Save Options > Generate Accessibility Information (Tags) for Acrobat checked "On". But the only objects that are being read by the Reader is signature fields. all other pages have this "Warning - Empty Page".
So I created a new blank file with few objects in it, with the accessibility settings as mentioned above. and still nothing working. Anyone have any insights about this issue?
