partially edit a selected area of PDF documents

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July 27, 2016
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Can we adjust the setting in Acrobat 9.0 Standard to partially edit a selected area of PDF docuents?

I would like to know whether we can change its setting to narrow the scope of editing only to designated areas, and whether we can change the font, size or space between
letters.

philippanmei

Participating Frequently

I don't use it the Acrobat 9.0 standard but off course you can change/edit the font, size or space between letter in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC by selecting the text.

Thanks

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This actually does not ask the question at hand, which I also came to find. Sometimes in Acrobat - say if you have scanned a document - it combines items from different rows or paragraphs into one. If one wishes to edit the document, but to change the highlighted field to be edited, how would they do that. It is very not obvious! Any idea?

Thom Parker

Community Expert

A scanned document can't be edited directly because each page is a single image, as oposed to a combination of text and graphics, which can be edited directly.

However, it is possible. OCR the PDF first. If you have a new version of Acrobat, then selecting the "PDF Edit" toolswill automatically OCR the page and break it into what it thinks are text and graphics. But OCR is tricky and if it's a bad scan, you'll get bad results.

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