Acrobat freezes when I OCR pdf files.  How do I fix this?!?

I just downloaded Adobe Acrobat 11 yesterday onto my MacBook Air. When I try to OCR documents Abobe semi-freezes, meaning that it won't let me save what it has just OCR'd, it won't let me close, it won't even let me minimize the window.  I say "semi-freezes" because it actually does ask me if I want to "save," but trying to do that, or trying to decline to do that and close, is futile. The only way I can get out of this is to shut the computer down completely and then turn it back on again.  This is a disaster because 90% of my job involves working with PDF files and I can't work unless I can OCR these documents.  They are numerous, voluminous, and use many complex terms.
Please give me step-by-step instructions as to how to fix this, and please assume I know absolutely ZERO technical things about computers.  Many thanks.  Pete

Moved to https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/scanning_%26_ocr.
I have used Acrobat 11 on a Macbook Air using both OX X,9 and X.10 without issue. Can I ask which version of Acrobat 11 you are using and what version of OS X? Additionally, are you seeing a freeze or a spinning pizza wheel of death. I have an older machine in which the spinning pizza wheel occurs whenever it feels like and I can wait for minutes before it returns control to me.

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