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Scanning a pdf document , editing it correctly

m2kk
Registered: Jul 20 2009
Posts: 3

Hello

This is the first time I am attempting this so please pardon the silly questions if any.

I had the hard copy of a document that I scanned into a pdf document.
I need to edit this document and use the same font as was in the original printed copy.

I notice that the scanned pdf has the same font but when I try to edit it using the touch up text tool I get a message saying that the system cannot find the font and it throws me a somewhat matching font.

Is it possible to get the original font somehow as I would like to edit in the same font.

Also, as I am editing the text formatting is constrained to a box and I am not able to increase the length and breadth of the box beyond what it is originally set to and as a result it is limiting my capacity to type in more text

Is there any solution to this ? Btw I am using adobe acrobat Pro 9.0.
Is there any other better way of acheving what I am trying to accomplish that is scan a document and edit it and print it

try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Don't use Acrobat for this, it's not a word processor.
You can use the tools in Microsoft's Office and when you're done convert the file to a PDF.

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m2kk
Registered: Jul 20 2009
Posts: 3
try67 wrote:
Don't use Acrobat for this, it's not a word processor.
You can use the tools in Microsoft's Office and when you're done convert the file to a PDF.
This page that I am trying to scan is a mix of images and text , when I scan it to Word 2007 the images tend to miss out .. Any clues
radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
You can use ReadIris for documents (also PDF's) with mixed contents. It allows to correct directly misinterpreted segments or to exclude images from the OCR.

radzmar
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