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How to edit scan document in acrobat

Community Beginner ,
Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

"Acrobat Community Members,

 

 

I'm looking to edit a scanned document in Adobe Acrobat. Can anyone guide me on the best method or tools available within Acrobat to efficiently edit scanned documents? Your insights and tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!"

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Community Expert ,
Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

Acroabat is NOT a word processing program or a page layout program.

 

Your second best bet is to export that PDF into (say) MS Word, do all of your adjusting, and then convert it back into a PDF.

 

Any attempts to do this in Acrobat will only delay your doing it the way I point out above. 

 

The BEST way is to find the original document and make all the changes in the original document's application. However, I gather that is off the table. 

 

Sorry, but that's the only possible answer.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024

Acrobat itself is not an image editor, but it can use an external one.

Go to Tools - Content Editing - Edit Text & Images, right-click the image and select Open With and then an image editor application (such as Photoshop). Make the changes there and when you save the file it should update automatically in the PDF.

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 22, 2024 Apr 22, 2024
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Thanks for the tip! I appreciate your guidance on using an external image editor with Adobe Acrobat for making edits to images within PDF documents. Basically i am running a homehospital and this is best tool for editing my documents for me in my office work. This workaround should be helpful for making precise adjustments when needed.

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