I spent the last 2 hours pulling my hair out over this, so I figured I’d share the solution in case anyone else runs into the dreaded issue with the Adobe Acrobat DC OCR Fix.exe tool.
Hey everyone,
FIXED: Adobe Acrobat DC OCR Fix.exe throwing "39-LINK-39" error / missing file Adobe Acrobat Dc Ocr Fix.exe --39-LINK--39-
Ignore any "direct download" links from forum pages that are older than 6 months. They are dead.
If you have a file named Adobe Acrobat DC OCR Fix.exe that is less than 500KB – delete it immediately. That is not the real program. It's a stub/linker. The real OCR fix should be ~15MB–50MB. I spent the last 2 hours pulling my
Hope this saves someone else the headache.
My "Scan & OCR" function in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC finally works again. No more "39-LINK-39" nonsense. If you have a file named Adobe Acrobat DC OCR Fix
If your Adobe Acrobat DC OCR Fix.exe is tiny, it's just a broken link file. Find a full repack (~1.5GB total) and pull the real OCR tool from inside it.
Cheers.