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Editing a PDF file from a scanner

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2008-08-13 14:34:18
adelxt
Registered: Aug 13 2008
Posts: 4

Hi ,

I am scanning a page from a copy machine and it converts the scan to a PDf file. When I open up the file in Adobe Acrobat 8.1 I can't edit it. I looked at the function; Advnaced, Security, Show Security Properties and it shows that editing is all allowed.

Is there something I should be doing?

Thanks
Steve

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1, Windows
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2008-08-13 15:01:42
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
It sounds like your scanner is just putting an image like a jpeg into a PDF, so there is no text just an image of a text page. If the quality of the scanned image is high enough one should be be able to use the OCR feature of Acrobat 8 Professional to OCR the the image and either create hidden text under the image or change the PDF to text and image.

George Kaiser

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2008-08-14 04:07:32
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adelxt
Registered: Aug 13 2008
Posts: 4
Hi Gkaiseril,

Thank you for your reply. I did use the OCR feature and it did run but afterwards I still couldn't edit the document. For testing, I saved it as a "txt" file and it was editable but I lost all fonting.

Any other ideas

Steve
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2008-08-14 07:24:35
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4308
If you created an image with hidden text, you can not edit the visible text because it is still an image.

George Kaiser

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