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Tariq AhmadCommunity Manager
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September 9, 2019
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How to edit a scanned image in Acrobat.

  • September 9, 2019
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Acrobat seamlessly converts your paper documents to editable PDFs. Our OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts the document into editable PDF and text with correctly recognized fonts in the document. 

 

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    D. Wheeler
    New Participant
    October 2, 2019

    I have scanned hundreds of pages and the their images can not be altered for historic reasons. However, some of the original pages contain misspellings of things we want to find in a search, such as names. Is there any way to insert the the correct spelling so a search would find the page?

    Amal.
    Community Manager
    Amal.Community Manager
    Community Manager
    October 2, 2019

    Hi There,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. As described above, you want to edit the text in the scanned document, correct?

     

    Acrobat can easily turn your scanned documents into editable PDFs. When you open a scanned document for editing, Acrobat automatically runs OCR (optical character recognition) in the background and converts the document into editable image and text with correctly recognized fonts in the document. 

     

    Please try the steps below and check if that works for you

     

    • Open the scanned PDF file in Acrobat.
    • Choose Tools > Edit PDF.
    • Click the text element you want to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image.
    • Choose File > Save As and type a new name for your editable document.

     

    You may also refer to the help articles below
    - https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/edit-scanned-pdfs.html

    - https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/how-to/scan-paper-documents-searchable-pdf.html

     

    Let us know how it goes

     

    Regards

    Amal

     
     
    da_houdini
    da_houdini
    New Participant
    September 15, 2019

    thx - very easy to comprehend some essential Adobe capabilities - I appreciate your help in being so handy and informational Dariq,

     

    -Houdini

    Houdini
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