How to edit text in a pdf file?

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July 22, 2010
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Hi all,

I'm an Adobe Reader novice. I've scanned a document into Adobe Reader 9 and which to delete some text from it. I can't scan the document into wordpad as it doesn't pick up the logo on the letterhead, I've also got Omnipage 15.0 but when I convert the pdf into a word document the logo isn't picked up and the document layout is confused.

I really hope someone can help me.

Many thanks

Rachel

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Vigorkk

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A pdf file from scanner is an image-based file so the text of it is not independent existed and not searchable. Usually it can't be converted to a word document. An OCR program will help you extract text from a scanned pdf file. Or you can erase text on the top of the pdf file in Photoshop program.

Allta Media

Community Expert

Here is a quick video tutorial that explains how to edit text in a scanned PDF using Acrobat X Std. or Pro.

[Click to watch on the AdobeTV site]

AbhigyanModi

Participating Frequently

First, you can't edit a document in Reader - you need Acrobat to do this.

Even in Acrobat, it will be hard to delete content from a scanned document (at least in a manner that someone else reading it cannot make out that you have done so). If you don't care about that, Redaction in Acrobat can help in deleting the content.