Sequences in Acrobat DC

I rely heavily on the «Flatten fields and comments» sequence, for the purpose of securing a pemanent mark-up of pdf documents. Usage is primarily my signature, otherwise exhibit numbers/identifiers in legal pleadings.
In DC the previous sequence appears to not work or to not be compatible. For whichever reason; ease of migration and use of DC obviously not among them.
the question is, is there any way to make the old sequence work in DC or is there a similar sequence for DC?

Refer this forum post for an answer to your problem -
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1582291

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Recognize Text in a Single Document - Best Settings

Scanning and OCR Question:
We are currently using Adobe Acrobat Professional Version 9. The scanner is a Canon DR-9080C. What are the best setting to assure the best searchable image? Once we upload the pdf document into our database we want to make sure it is searchable and selectable. Also what is the best scanning dpi setting?
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[email address deleted by host]

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Click the arrow [2] to include this selection in the profile [3].
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While the default indicator is "Error" for when a Preflight fires you can change this to Warning or Info. [1]
To further configure the profile click the "Edit check" button. [2]
The default trigger for this custom check is "is true" but if you want "is not true" you can change that in the Edit Check
dialog.
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Once you have this (or any profile created) Preflight profile saved export it to a dedicated location (say a "KFP" folder).
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Click Edit Sequence...
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This opens the dialog "Edit Batch Sequence - Preflight HT" . Click the Select Commands button.
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Next, select "Preflight" then click the "Edit" button.
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In the dialog that is presented you can configure reporting options.
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that facilitates a quick at-a-glance means of assessment.
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Next you'd click OK on the Edit Sequence dialog to close it.
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The summary report provides useful information.
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For an Information alert you have blue. Note that "information" is denoted as "Notification".
For a Warning alert you have the yellow/orange icon.
For an Error alert you have the red icon.
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The file name in the summary report is linked to the file which lets you view the file for specifics.
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What can be useful is to create an Action / Batch Sequence that use multiple Preflight profiles.
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The premise is that PDFs in a given folder all contain PDF page content that is scanned images of textual content and that
all PDFs have undergone OCR (Searchable Image or Searchable Image (Exact)).
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--| OCR output (text rendering mode 3) is, by default, not embedded
--| The OCR output is expected to be searchable.
--| OCR output *is* of text rendering mode 3; so we expect this to be present.
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--| Select, from the menu bar, Advanced > Document Processing > Batch Processing
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(thomp) posts at AUC:
http://acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=7428
http://acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=2908
(try67) posts at AUC:
http://acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=20725
"Print File Name with pdf Document" thread from this Forum (an older thread, but informative).
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/302996
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You can use a Preflight to check the PDFs via an Action (Acrobat X) or Batch Sequence (pre-Acrobat X).
The Preflight would use a Custom check.
You could use "Can be mapped to Unicode"
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