Can you OCR, or edit, text of a PDF without the program rotating the page?

Question

I have a few PDFs that need to be edited, but I would like the page layout to remain the same. The problem I'm having is that when I choose to edit the text, the OCR runs automatically and rotates the page & text boxes, so everything is horizontal. This rotates the entire page. You can see the page edges I made in the examples.

Is there a way to edit the text without the text boxes & page rotating? I want to be able to edit the text at it's original angle? Here are 2 examples of what I'm explaining. Page 1.pdf is the original. Page 2.pdf is what happens to the page when select the Edit Text box to change some of the text. You will notice that the page stays fine, but is uneditable when the Recognize text box is unchecked, but there are no text fields available to edit. Once checked, the text is editable, but the page rotates to make the text boxes horizontal. Is there a way to edit the text at an angle and have the page layout stay the same? ---- These are just example pages. They don't mean anything.

Thank You

gary_sc · Accepted Answer

That's what I was afraid of, but it's not a question of fixing a few pages that were scanned. We scan over 50k pages a day. We don't always have to edit or fix things, but when we do, Photoshop might be the best way. It just adds more time.

Most of our clients don't have "dirty" files like that, but some do. Attorney's have to share all files, so there's copies of copies that are filed and scanned. Other clients have forms that aren't reprinted, but just copies of old prints. That's where this happens. I did learn to run the OCR with Scan & OCR and set the program to run "Searchable Images (Exact)" and it runs the OCR on the pages, as is, and nothing is changed. That's just why I was wondering if there was a way to edit a page the same way, as is, and nothing is automatically changed.

Thank you for your help. It saved me a lot of time instead of spending hours trying to find a way that doesn't exist.

Sean

Yes, I'm sorry that I didn't have better news.

Ostensibly, Acrobat should be able to take the twisted page, do what it needs to do, and return it to its twisted state. Unfortunately, (for you) Adobe takes the position that "everyone wants their pages straight." So, after the initial straightening, it just leaves it like that.

Best, and good luck!

Chris201Chris · Answer

Have you tried the solution suggested here?
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-do-i-recognize-text-under-the-enhance-tools-without-it-rotating-the-page-slightly/td-p/8797488
Basically, if you instead of clicking Recognixe text, click on Enhance and change the settings (deselecting unskew) and the click the Enhance button, you should be able to OCR without the text being deskewed.

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