How about an Eraser tool?

[_drdocument_]

How about an Eraser tool in "Advanced Editing" tools which could be used to remove extraneous marks from scanned documents?

[~graffiti]

It would be nice but, Acrobat isn't geared towards the manipulation of bitmap images. They sell Photoshop for that.

[PJonesCET]

If it's just a page or two you can get around this by using the crop tool to crop the file top/bottom /left/right until just the text or image (the desired information) is showing then when you go to print have the acrobat print menu to automatically center on the page and choose none for fit the margins or such (how much enlargement. you should a document with the correct amount of margins all around and none of the junk.

Now if this is for a ton of work then it would become tedious.

[_Arnoud_]

I have also been looking for an eraser tool. I found a helpful tool in "Organic Tool Box". However the perfect eraser you can find in "Paperport" which accept "tif" files. Convert your "pdf" file to a "tif" file, do your document cleaning, straightening and OCR and save it as a "pdf" file. Works for me.

[_Ronin_Vladiamhe_]

Though I'm currently using the PaperPort/OmniPage combination for creating/editing original documents, I was hoping to do away with both and use Acrobat. The Crop Tool doesn't help with extraneous marks like the Eraser Tool in Paperport does. I'm using Acrobat 8.1.1. Where is this 'organic tool box' located?

[_sjaak_]

Hmm i'm searching for an eraser tool myself. Offcourse if you have the original in word, psd etc you can edit it here, but unfortunately often times you received pdf's from suppliers. If you covert it to tiff, edit it and pdf it back the font gets ugly. Hope this will be integrated it feature versions.

[PJonesCET]

If its not available it would be a neat idea. If you can find feedback request on the acrobat portion of the Adobe website. It would be a good feedback request for Acrobat 10 which will be out in two years (at least) I think. IF its not too complicated they might could add as an update to 9, Maybe?

[_Jared_W__Grubbs_]

I agree this would be nice. There are ways around it, but this would save some hassle. I agree they probably won't do it though :(

[PDN]

This works for me:

1. In Acrobat, do a Save As to convert your PDF file to a TIF.
2. Open the TIF in Photoshop.
3. Do your erasing using the Eraser Tool.
4. Do a Save As to convert back to a "Photoshop PDF".
5. Open the new PDF in Acrobat to check the results.

[Sarah_GL]

I did a workaround for this by creating a white rectangle to cover the area I didn't want.  does the trick for simple stuff.

[try67]

The Redaction tool can be used to do that.

[Sarah_GL]

Thanks! I didn't know that.  unfortunately though the Redaction tool is only available with the Acrobat X Pro, and I just have Acrobat Pro. 

here is the link for anyone's who's interested:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/pdf-redaction.html

[Bernd Alheit]

The Redaction Tool is available in Acrobat Pro.

[JR Boulay]

unfortunately though the Redaction tool is only available with the Acrobat X Pro, and I just have Acrobat Pro.

No, the Redaction tool cames with version 8: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2009/07/redaction-tips-and-techniques-for-acrobat-9/

[beardevo]

This is one that I don't understand.  There's an eraser tool.  When I mouse over the eraser tool icon, it says "Erase Free Form By Clicking and Dragging".  I click on it and I get a target icon.  So I try to click and drag to clean-up the edges of scaned pages and it does nothing.  Why have the tool if it doesn't do anything?  I'm using standard XI.  I've got to convert it to a graphic or find another tool to do something this simple because I didn't purchase another product?  What is the eraser icon doing in the tools if it doesn't work?

[try67]

It does work, but only for free form annotations, as it (not very clearly) says... So if you draw something with the Pencil tool you'll be able to delete parts of that drawing with the Eraser tool, but that's ALL it can do.

[kurt1524]

That's my point ((worthless)) crapware! Oh by the way, you'll like it too.

[kurt1524]

You are all dreaming and bowing down to Adobe who certainly for the high price of their Acrobat product should and could offer easier and certainly more straight forward use of better tools. An eraser tool is certainly not farfetched or difficult to include to be able to remove text in any form of any file being pdf comments or whatever you have to erase. Adobe does not and will not listen to you. They could care less what you have to say or to ask for or even pay for. Like most high and mighty publishers, they will release it and you will like it period. Software has become and antagonizing frustrating expensive joke. It’s no wonder there is so much pirating and key generation as people are tired of paying through the nose for crapware.