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Use Adobe content panel to create a layered photoshop project

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July 28, 2020
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Good evening,

Here is my situation. I have an old pdf in quite bad quality. Thanks to Adobe Acrobat I was able to recognize the text but there is still lots of artifacts in the back that I would like to clean in Photoshop.

I found that in the Acrobat content panel I have my page broke in several elements and that I can modify one by one in photoshop.

My question is : is that possible to generate from that content panel a photoshop project where the layers would be each element of the pdf page.

An even better solution for me would be to be able to generate an Indesign project with each page of the pdf being a page of the indesign project splitted in layers thank to the content panel

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Eric Dumas

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Hi,

Can you confirm the exact version of your software and operating system you are using?

Also, can you include some screenshots?

You can recreate the pages in InDesign, typing the text to insure their crisp look and insert the pdf in picture frames for the images.

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PetwagAuthor

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Hi,

I am on Acrobat Pro DC 2020 on windows 10

So a page of my file looks like this after I used the OCR to detect texte in the image

sorry the placeholder are in french, i hope the structure is enough

I don't have the back of the pages, the images as separate files because it come from a scan I made of one of my old books that I'd like to clean. So I can't recreate the pages in InDesign by hand (also there is 300 pages that's something to take in count 🙂 )

My idea is that as we can see in the Content panel, after i optimise and detect the text, My background images and my texts are well separated but the background still have a lots a noise that i'd like to clean.

from that:

and

to

If it was possible to generate my inDesign layers from that content panel it would make the work quite easily doable but if I have not other choices than writting the text by hands for 300 pages I guess it's a project that I will not do :D.

I just felt weird that no options to do so was obvious as that content panel clearly act like layers and I felt a tool allowing the bridge between pdf and inDesign would be so awesome

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Petwag,

It looks like you have a common problem with scanning: we're seeing the text in the page behind the page that you're scanning. While this "can" be corrected in Photoshop to some degree, it's best corrected at the time of the scan.

However, since you've already done the scanning, I'm not all that certain if you want to go back and do the scanning again.

Nonetheless, here's a blog I wrote for Adobe some time back on getting clean scans that also talks about the conflict between deleting the back (not clean) background versus getting a clean scan in the first place.

http://photosbycoyne.com/Gary's_Help/Scanning/clean-scanning.html

If you wish, you can try and clean things up in Photoshop, save as a "Photoshop PDF," and then process the page for OCR.

Good luck!

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