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September 29, 2017
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How do I straighten scanned pages in Adobe Acrobat DC?

  • September 29, 2017
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How can I straighten scanned PDF pages in Adobe Acrobat DC?

Correct answer marie_4276

The pages I just edited are skewed a little - I couldn't scan them myself because the place where I scan is closed for Covid, so a friend did it for me, and I didn't want to be too fussy. I rotated them 90 degrees, cropped them, removed the specks, put the single pages into one 42-page file, and posted it on the website. Some day, when this pandemic is over, I will scan it myself and be very, very careful to get it perfectly straight, and do the rest over again. If I had seen this page before it was all done, yes I would have tried deskewing it too, but when I have done that in photo programs - even very good ones - the type has always lost some quality, and it is probably more important to have it sharp and clear than completely straight.


Eureka! That was the solution!

AAPro DC contains the "Scan & OCR" tool in the TOOLS bar. It is green and looks like a printer. I had to play with it a little to get the results I needed; here is what worked to deskew my badly skewed document:

- Tools/Scan & OCR

- Enhance

- Scanned document

Voila!  Thank you so much!

 

12 replies

terrim94955965
Participant
March 7, 2018

I have the same problem. I have the correct settings but I get zero results when using the enhance scan function.

Participant
September 15, 2020

I experienced the same problem, deskew did not work and I had a full page of text.

Direct Patient Care StL
Participant
February 15, 2021

Me three -- same problem I'm having. The deskew doesn't change the scanned image, even when it is a full-page text document.

Karl Heinz  Kremer
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 29, 2017

Use the "Enhance Scans" function (just search for "scan" in Acrobat's tool search). You then have to select that you want to enhance a scanned document:

And then select to edit the Settings:

Now you can adjust the filters. One of the available filters is "Deskew", which will straighten the scanned pages.

susanl63458385
Participant
February 18, 2021

hi there, 
for single PDF's this works great but for batch processing these settings do not exist, or did i miss this somewhere?
greetings, 

Participant
February 18, 2021
Hi - if you mean when there is a lengthy document, it seems like you have
to scroll to each page to correct it although it's possible you can just
save it to a new document and it will have corrected it.

However - this does not work consistently. Sometimes the OCR straightening
works if the edit pdf does not.

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