Acrobat could not open "name of file".pdf

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I have Adobe Acrobat 9.0I had an external hard drive that reformatted and erased all of my info. I got a recovery program to pull the information back.Most of the pdf's that were recovered were fine but some of them I can not open. It "seems" to be files that I scanned in myselfonto my computer. When I try to open one of these files a box pops up that says:"Acrobat could not open "name of file".pdf" because it is either not a supported file type orbecause the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF."What do I need to do to correct this?

try67 · Answer

The only thing I can think of is to open the file using a plain-text editor, like Notepad, to make sure it's actually a PDF file.

The first line should be something like this:

%PDF-1.4

If it's not, it's either not a PDF file, or it got corrupt beyond repair.

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