Is there a way to edit the text from scanned documents. I can use the typewritter feature, but is there a way for Acrobat to recognize the text so that I can edit it rather than having to retype the whole document to correct a few items?
Editing Text In PDF documents
2010-06-23 05:06:06
2010-06-23 08:01:07
#2
I did OCR the document, but it still does not allow me to make any corrections.
2010-06-23 08:38:16
#3
Did you use the Text Touch-up Tool?
2010-06-23 22:37:51
#4
OCR:
--| Searchable Image
--| Searchable Image (Exact)
--| "Formatted Text & Graphics (Acrobat Pro 8)
--| "ClearScan" (Acrobat Pro 9)
First two leave a hidden layer of OCR output characters.
With Professional you can use Examine Document. An option lets you view the OCR output.
For all practical purposes, there is no "editing" of this in Acrobat.
You could save as to text. Put the text into a word processor & clean it up.
Then output a new PDF.
The other two, basically, do:
--| Recognize the character? Replace it with a renderable font character.
--| Not sure? Make a "suspect" - user can edit - again, have a renderable character.
--| No idea? Leave a bitmapped image behind.
Minor touch up edits to the renderable characters is possible; and, time consuming.
With ClearScan, one must change the special, made by Acrobat, font to something available on the local machine (that does not have license restrictions that might prevent Acrobat from using it).
Be well...
--| Searchable Image
--| Searchable Image (Exact)
--| "Formatted Text & Graphics (Acrobat Pro 8)
--| "ClearScan" (Acrobat Pro 9)
First two leave a hidden layer of OCR output characters.
With Professional you can use Examine Document. An option lets you view the OCR output.
For all practical purposes, there is no "editing" of this in Acrobat.
You could save as to text. Put the text into a word processor & clean it up.
Then output a new PDF.
The other two, basically, do:
--| Recognize the character? Replace it with a renderable font character.
--| Not sure? Make a "suspect" - user can edit - again, have a renderable character.
--| No idea? Leave a bitmapped image behind.
Minor touch up edits to the renderable characters is possible; and, time consuming.
With ClearScan, one must change the special, made by Acrobat, font to something available on the local machine (that does not have license restrictions that might prevent Acrobat from using it).
Be well...
2010-06-24 01:21:32
#5
use (experiment with) redaction tool
2010-06-30 23:08:42
#6
Sounds someone has asked the simliar question before. ^_^ OCR application is essential if you want to make scanned PDF editable. I recommend PDF OCR Terminal, which can freely help you do that. Google would help you find that.
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