What computer specs/ hardware will speed up my Adobe Acrobat OCR speed?

So, I have a work task where I am Sanitizing the PDF, then watermarking it, OCR-ing it, and password protecting it.

Especially the OCR seems to just take forever, and I'm doing this task on potentially thousands of documents so I'm looking into upgrading my PC to better handle the task.

My question is what component of my PC is most correlated to Adobe Acrobat's performance? Would it be RAM, CPU, or something else?

Currently running with a Intel i5-4690k. 8GB RAM and a Samsung 960 EVO SSD.

Denny Mintis

Posted 2019-05-05T05:03:01.930

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Can you batch process these? Setting up a batch process is likely to result in FAR better performance increases, simply because it won't be waiting for you to set up the next step. – music2myear – 2019-05-17T00:02:58.610

Answers

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2309059 (mirror):

Acrobat uses only one processor, so it may benefit from the fastest single core. [...] You should use Task Manager to see what limit is actually being reached.

Franck Dernoncourt

Posted 2019-05-05T05:03:01.930

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There are not a lot of processors with better single-threaded performance than an i5-4690k. Yes, the processor is a few years old but pretty darn fast. You left an important part of the quote out, "Or not.", and it was from another Acrobat user not Adobe. – Ramhound – 2019-05-05T05:46:16.113

1@Ramhound "Or not" is redundant with "may". – Franck Dernoncourt – 2019-05-05T05:47:51.313

I don't disagree. Except it was said, and was an important part of that quote. – Ramhound – 2019-05-05T05:50:33.023