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May 3, 2019 5:26 PM UTC
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Keep getting the error Acrobat has detected that this page doesnt have editable text. I have been editing pdf's for years and today it will not work.

Keep getting the error Acrobat has detected that this page doesnt have editable text.  I have been editing pdf's for years and today it will not work.

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barbara_a7746676
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Community Expert
May 3, 2019 10:23 PM UTC

When you click on Edit PDF, are you able drag through the text to highlight it text with the I-Beam cursor?

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Participant
Mar 27, 2025 5:19 PM UTC

No. only a box around the whole text.

 

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Souvik Sadhu
Legend
Mar 28, 2025 3:25 PM UTC

Hi @dj_dinamita6401,

 

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

 

From the description, it seems like you are working with a document which has scanned images.

 

Have you tried going to Edit-> Scan & OCR-> Recognize text.

Once this is done, try the edit workflow again.

 

More info around this available here: https://adobe.ly/4j887GK.

 

Hope this helps.


Regards,
Souvik.

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Dov Isaacs
Legend
May 3, 2019 7:20 PM UTC

Most likely, what appears to be text on the page is really some combination of “outlined text” (i.e., vector artwork) and/or text within raster images such as would be obtained by scanning to a PDF file.

          - Dov

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- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
kglad
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May 3, 2019 7:16 PM UTC
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May 3, 2019 6:03 PM UTC