I'm sorry if I posted this in the wrong place. This is my first day in the Forums, and I am still trying to find my way around.
I am using Acrobat 7.0 Pro to scan personal documents to my hard drive for safe keeping. In many of the documents, I've come across minor (1, 2, 3 character) typo mistakes and have tried using the TouchUp Text Tool to correct them. When I use the tool to selet even a single character, a blue line appears around the entire portion of text as if it were grouped, or a table, or graphic. Most of the documents I have are very simple free-form text.
Please help!!! I have a ton to scan, and any sueggstions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ardyr
Scanning output is always an image.
It is this image that is brought into the PDF.
To edit any image you'll need to use an image editing program.
Anything from MS Paint to Photoshop; but an image editor.
Image of text can be OCR'd by Acrobat Pro 7.
If the text were printed output from a word processor (such as MS Word) I'd suggest using the OCR "PDF Output Style" of Formatted Text & Graphics.
This output style permits correcting "suspects" (OCR text output that may not be correct). As the output replaces the image, you'd have a text type that could support use of the TouchUp Text tool.
However, you indicate that most of the text is "free-form" text; which I take to mean handwritten (cursive or something of a block print).
Unfortunately, the Acrobat OCR engine is not designed to be a high end handwritting analysis OCR engine.
Consequently, you will have little satisfaction with this approach.
Something to consider.
Use the Comments & Markup tools to create annotations as desired.
Example - a sticky note to summarize salient points for a page or topics on a page.
Acrobat Pro provides comments summary reports which could be useful.
These could be to PDF or to hardcopy.
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