Cannot detect headers and footers

[Jonathan26806110k8yc]

I have a document that has what should be some text and page numbers in the headers and footers. However, when I open the PDF in Adobe Acorbat Pro Version 2022.003.20263 and attempt to edit, I see the text is not recognized as a header or footer. Example of the expected footer text below.

Here is the message I get when I attempt to update:

The message is clear. But is there anyway I can get the headers and footers to be detected? Unfortunatley I cannot share the document because it contains sensitive information. Any help is much appreciated.  

I can provide a little more information. I am working on an NLP project. Currently the NLP is picking up a lot of false poisitives in headers and footers. Therefore, I need a way to discount the header and footer information. But since the text in the PDF is not being detected as a header and footer I cannot find a simple solution to eliminate this false positives. Thanks!!

[Bernd Alheit]

"But is there anyway I can get the headers and footers to be detected?"

Yes, when you add header and footer with Adobe Acrobat.

[Jonathan26806110k8yc]

Thanks, but unfortunately this does not help. This is a 2,000+ page
document that already has text which should be detected as headers and
footers. I cannot go page by page and take the text and manually enter it.

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[Bernd Alheit]

With the redaction tool you can remove text at top and bottom of the pages.

[Jonathan26806110k8yc]

That's a good suggestion, but I still need the content to be visible. I
just don't want NLP to view this information which tends to lead to false
positives. In an ideal world, I could detect the information as headers and
footers, then train my model to ignore headers and footers. Thanks again!

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