I do not use adobe. My experience with linux and OCR has been fantastic, in fact I have been unable to duplicate what I did in linux when I switched back to windows.
My experience with GIMP has shown no shortcomings.
If you are trying to use windows programs in linux, that is your problem, and no, wine doesn’t work well.
The biggie for me is books I have written and maintain that were published in pdf from both Word and PowerPoint, probably totalling 2400pp (example
here and
here). Converting whatever foibles they might exhibit in the tranistion to their Linux 'equivalents' is not only a learning problem, it is a huge logistical problem.