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mossy_oak
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July 8, 2014
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How do i add text to converted document. It is not responding like a word doc?

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How do i add text to converted document. It is not responding like a word doc?

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    Sara_ForsbergCommunity Manager
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    July 8, 2014

    Hi mossy oak,

    Did you convert it from within Reader? If so, it's possible that OCR was disabled when you did the conversion. OCR converts scanned text to selectable/editable text. So, if your PDF started out as a scanned document, it would be necessary to run OCR on it to convert the text into something selectable. Try converting the file, and make sure that "Recognize Text in..." shows the correct language in ExportPDF pane (click Change if you need to change this setting to a different language, or turn on OCR).

    Please let us know how it goes.


    Best,

    Sara

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    mossy_oakAuthor
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    July 8, 2014

    I did within reader and within the document itself. This was not a scan but a word doc that was converted t a PDF, any other suggestions?

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    Sara_ForsbergCommunity Manager
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    July 8, 2014

    Hi again,

    Did I misunderstand? Did you convert from PDF to Word, or the other way around? If you converted to PDF from Word, then you would need Acrobat to edit the text in the PDF once it's been converted. Or, did you convert from Word to PDF and back to Word? If the latter, and OCR was enabled, then sometimes it's just a matter of triple-clicking in the text to select it.

    What version of Word are you using?

    Best,

    Sara

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