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2010-08-24 11:01:33
tdrane
Registered: Aug 24 2010
Posts: 2
Answered

We have a great many pdf's. These were scanned into the system as .tiff files, and using several
programs, PaperPort, etc, they were converted to pdf.
My question, is there any way to convert these to an editable page? Correcting spelling, etc?

Using Version 9 Pro Extended.

My best guess, is I'm out of luck.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 9.0, Windows
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2010-08-24 14:56:23
#1
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Presuming that the third party 'make a PDF' produced standards compliant PDF then, with Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (or Pro) you can certainly accomplish what you want to do.

Perform ClearScan OCR on the PDFs containing the scanned image(s).
If already provided with hidden text from Searchable Image or Searchable Image (Exact) use Examine Document to identify this and have Examine document remove the hidden text.

Once ClearScan has been done you can review the output to locate where edits to the text may be desired.


View David Mankin's "Scanning and OCR" eSeminar
[url]http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p49554903/[/url]
At just past the 0:46:25 point on the timeline, David demonstrates how to change font and font size of ClearScan font along with rekey of characters (aka 'edit' ).Review Rick Borstein's Blog article of ClearScan.
[url]http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/?p=97[/url]


Nothing particular difficult involved; however, it is a time consuming plug'n chug endeavor.

n.b., Why 'standards' compliant PDF is an issue - all too often non-Adobe PDF producers don't quite go the distance.
Adobe Reader / Acrobat presume a PDF is compliant with ISO 32000-1 (PDF Standard) or compliant with the Acrobat Reference documents that came before the ISO Standard.

If you have somewhat 'off' PDFs you may experience the alert:

Quote:
Accumulated text within the attempted selection area is rotated other than horizontal or vertical.
TouchUp cannot create a text selection.
For PDF page content that leaves you with this you may have to go back to the source TIFF and output a 'fresh' PDF.

Be well...

Be well...

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2010-08-25 06:21:34
#2
tdrane
Registered: Aug 24 2010
Posts: 2
Thanks for the reply. So far, it's worked on a couple, and since I dont know what programs, who did them, or when, it's better than nothing.
Thanks again.
Cheers.
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