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January 21, 2013
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How can I erase pencil/pen marks on a pdf using Acrobat 11?

  • January 21, 2013
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I have googled this question with no success. I know that you can erase pencil marks made with the pencil tool in Acrobat, but I need to erase physical pencil marks from a scanned document.

I know that I can use Photoshop to erase, but I have seen an eraser tool in far inferior pdf programs! Can anyone tell me if this is even possible to do with Acrobat 11?

Thank you for your time!

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Correct answer try67

Try: Edit > Preferences > Touchup > Choose Image Editor

That's for Acrobat 9. I'm not at my Acrobat 11 machine at the moment, but it should be something similar.


In Acrobat XI it's under: Edit - Prefs. - Content Editing - Image Editor.

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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January 21, 2013

Your best option is probably the Redaction tool in Acrobat Pro.

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KazamarioAuthor
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January 22, 2013

So, its not possible to natively edit pencil marks in Acrobat 11?

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January 22, 2013

@Test - My bad on the workflow, I rechecked the definition in relation to Adobe products.

I scan my college books. Sometimes there are pencil marks in them. Photoshop and Acrobat 11 are roughly $400?

So why not save the consumer some $$$ and just include an eraser?

As far as the shoe-horn comment - most Adobe software does everything except bake cookies. Pshop is a perfect example of this.

It is pretty, no extremely comprehensive with what it can do. It's simply amazing! There is a ton of stuff shoe-horned in there, and most other Adobe products.

If there wasn't a background eraser tool in Pshop and other inferior photo editing programs had background eraser tools, this would be a major issue.

ABBYY Fine Reader is junk imo, but it has an eraser. Acrobat is greatness and I use it exclusively for everything pdf related.

I just simply find it appalling that there is no eraser. Your turn Test...


I can see the meeting now.  "Let's add this function to Acrobat" "Great idea - what is it for" "So people don't need to buy Photoshop". It's not a sale I could make.

Anyway, there have now been two people suggesting an alternative - redaction. Designed for people like governments and solicitors who have to remove sensitive information from documents, perhaps - provided it can be replaced with just white - it is what you need.

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