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May 3, 2019
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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.

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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.

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barbara_a7746676
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 3, 2019

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

Participant
March 27, 2025

No. only a box around the whole text.

 

S_S
Community Manager
Community Manager
March 28, 2025

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
Legend
May 3, 2019

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)
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