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Keep getting the error Acrobat has detected that this page doesnt have editable text. I have been editing pdf's for years and today it will not work.

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
May 3, 2019
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Edit and convert PDFs

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

When you click on Edit PDF, are you able drag through the text to highlight it text with the I-Beam cursor?

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dj_dinamita6401

Participant

No. only a box around the whole text.

S_S

Community Manager

Hi @dj_dinamita6401,

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

From the description, it seems like you are working with a document which has scanned images.

Have you tried going to Edit-> Scan & OCR-> Recognize text.

Once this is done, try the edit workflow again.

More info around this available here: https://adobe.ly/4j887GK.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Souvik.

Dov Isaacs

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Most likely, what appears to be text on the page is really some combination of “outlined text” (i.e., vector artwork) and/or text within raster images such as would be obtained by scanning to a PDF file.

- Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)

kglad

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[moved from Downloading, Installing, Setting Up to Editing & Exporting PDFs]

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