How do I straighten scanned pages in Adobe Acrobat DC?

[terim64602548]

How can I straighten scanned PDF pages in Adobe Acrobat DC?

[MyerPj · Accepted solution]

I just used it on 2023 and it worked well. Don't forget to press the <Enhance> button.

So simply:

<Scan & OCR> (tool)
Enhance->Scanned Document
<Enhance> (if the settings are correct or default)

if not or to check

<Settings>

<Edit> (in the filters section)

Make sure DeSkew is on

OK

<Enhance>

You can choose whether or not to also "Recognize Text" from the options on the screen.

The only complaint I have is why Adobe has never saw fit to change to Camel Notation, with DeSkew instead of Deskew??

[MyerPj]

Can you put the image into Photoshop and straighten it there?

[davidj62580202]

Yes, but it's a slow (many extra steps) workaround and only available to those with a full CS license. The resulting PDF is 3x the size of the original, though with more steps, saving as "reduced" size PDF brings it down.

[MyerPj]

Yes, it's more difficult than it needs to be. The deskew (DeskEw) I saw it as for quite some time, is more complicated than needs be. It would be good to have simple sizing and rotating options in Acrobat.

[PL_Andre0822]

2024 -- The suggested fix does not work on current version of Adobe Pro.  What am I paying for - ?

[Jeffery26672072y9tt]

I have to frequently straighten (deskew) a lot of music  (all have been purchased by me and is my personal copy - but much of it has to be scanned for my pdf reader.

There is no "enhance" feature in my Adobe Acrobat.   I simply load the scan into Adobe Acrobat.   Using the edit feature I rotate the page to be viewed correctly.   Then I crop the page (most Organ music is always in the landscape orientation and not standard American Sized paper and my scanner will be able to scan a document that is 24" x 24" so there is always some cropping needed).   After cropping the image(s) in the document I proceed to the first page and then choose the "select text" on-screen button but I do not actually click on anything in the document.   The program will then "read" the page again and then it automatically will straighten the page out.

Back in the old days (ok, maybe 10 years or so ago) Adobe Acrobat had an actual feature called "DeSkew" under the "enhance" category and I think that has gone the way of the horse and buggy.   It should do this automatically if you give the program time to do it.  It is not instantanious, it does take a few seconds to work.   I do not know why these "people" on here feel that they can gaslight everyone into hating the product when they do not know the answer.   Don't respond if you cannot be civil to each other - and don't ask "why they would want to do such a preposerous thing as deskew"   grow up already anyway.

[Shirley5C7F]

Which version do you have? This process sounds ideal for the newer versions
that are actually less functional than the older ones. (I read years ago in
this forum that DC is less functional than it's predecessors.) Acrobat 7
seems to be ideal, but you need to keep an older computer that will run it
in legacy mode, then use Bluetooth to transfer the document to your newer
computer.

[Jeffery26672072y9tt]

Hello Shirley5C7F,

I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro 64-bit version:  2024.005.20320.

I have to have a full version of Acrobat because of my music needs (basically zero music is now printed by a publisher).   They want to sell you the outragiously priced Digital version for the same price as printing and it is now printed pretty-much "on-demand" so it takes about a month to get anything via mail.    They win because there no longer is a need to keep "inventory" that may or may not sell.

     I had Acrobat DC for a while so I know that internal software things are not in the same spot,  but regardless make sure you have "Preferences" set correctly in the settings.    Make sure you have recognize [Text] and [Smooth line art].   Then you will have to open the file and click on "Edit"  it should automatically recognize the first page text or line art.   If you have to rotate and/or crop do this before you recognize the text/line art.   You may have to recognize each page (it only takes a couple of seconds for each page).   This feature may be under "OCR recognition".   I know that the layout of each Adobe version is different.   I do know that when my computer opens a PDF document in the browser window (I use BRAVE browser) the document opens as a tab, but even though I have the full version of Adobe Acrobat I cannot edit the document.   I must first close the open tab with the PDF, and then open the document that is now downloaded to my computer in my full version of Acrobat to work correctly.    I think that the Adobe [Light] browser version is just for sign and send purposes.     This is for Windows PC's only - I do not know what the Apple Actobat looks like or functions like.   I hope that this helps.