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I have a scanned document, a simple list of text. It's crooked, and I want to straighten it.
I know that the 'enhance PDF' will produce a list of options, one of which is 'deskew.' I've done that. It didn't help; the document is still crooked. Am I missing something? I just want to rotate the whole image by a small amount; I don't really care if it's automatic or I have to do it.
Acrobat Pro DC for Mac, Yosemite 10.10.5. The scan was with a cheap HP all-in-one, if that matters, but it shouldn't.
Thanks,
/s/ Rankin Johnson IV
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Try running Text Recognition on the file. That should deskew it automatically.
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Try running Text Recognition on the file. That should deskew it automatically.
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I'm in grad school and now get old, long (pre-Internet) scholarly articles with TWO columns at odd angles. As far as I can figure out, OCR can fix ONLY HALF of the document. The other half either gets entirely missed, or distastrously "corrected". Should I attempt to split the document, screen shot one half (or EACH) page, then create a *new* PDF? That could be exhausting for docs of 30+ pages.