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Gabor22773582n1bc
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April 18, 2024
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Scanned PDF

  • April 18, 2024
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Hello,

 

I have a PDF file which is scanned with HP printer.

This pdf file have 2 pages , each pages have 1 image.

Both images are the same size.

Both pages are vertical.

 

I would like to edit:

- I need the pages horizontal.

- I need to print 2 sided and cut out the image.  But the back side images have to be exactly behind the front side images after the cut. I do not know how can I solve it to be behind each other the two images when I print 2 sided. 

- I need to replace images, because there are more cards, but image size must have to be the same.

 

My problem:

- When I open the Adobe Acrobat -> Edit pdf , it start to recognise text.

- If I turn off recognisation all page is one image when I select it. White edges too. I cannot select only the image without the edges.

- I cannot center the images.

- when I replace the image the texts are staying there, because of text recognisation.

 

Extremly hard to work with Adobe Acrobat. It is not user friendly at all. I would like to do some simple things and it is extremly difficult.

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
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    April 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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      Gabor22773582n1bcAuthor
      Inspiring
      April 18, 2024

      Thank you for your reply.

       

      PDF means portable document format.

      So you said Adobe Acrobat is a useless application?

      I cannot edit a document with a document editor?

      Adobe did not include Microsoft 365. MS Word cannot edit PDF.

      MS Word not for images.

      You not read what I wrote, you just answer something.

      But why?

      This is a community, if you do not know the answer you do not have to write.

      "find the original document " - what original document?

      I wrote: I scanned images. 1 image on the page 1 , and another on the page 2.

      family photo, one side full body, other side portrait.

      Yes, I know, do it with photoshop. No, that is not good. The A4 scanning shows the size of the image.

      PDF keep the sizes, so when I scanned A4 size , it will print on A4 exactly that size how big it was scanned.

      I do not have to measure, and playing with size.

      This is why PDF great, portable, so keeping the sizes doas not matter which machine, which app you open it, and print it.

      What is the point of the Adobe Acrobat if it cannot edit simple pdf? Default things cannot do.

      Xodo free pdf editor can do more and easier than Adobe Acrobat?

      That is shame.

      I always have to search, and find PDF editor, because Adobe Acrobat cannot do this and that...

      Adobe Acrobat is useless.  And you just wrote it.

      I have to use different company application.

      I am speachless.

       

       

      gary_sc
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      gary_scCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      April 18, 2024

      Hi, @Gabor22773582n1bc, let me elaborate a bit here:

       

      You CAN do simple basic edits: fix a spelling, change a date, things like that. But the extensive editing you want to do is beyond Acrobat's capabilities. You can toast a slide of bread in a toaster, but you can't make bread in a toaster. 

       

      I mentioned the best way is to take the original document and make all of your changes there. That IS the best way. When that's not possible, you have to make do. The 2nd best way to make big changes to a PDF document is as I mentioned before. 

       

      Look, I've been doing things to PDF documents for over 25 years. If there was a better, faster, easier way to do it, I'd love to know. But, alas there is not. But please, keep on asking and if you learn of another way, please let me know. Seriously, please let me know.

       

      Good luck!

       

      (BTW, some 13 years ago, my mom died. She had been typing our family history for years and I wanted to save this for my sister and me. The typewriter she used was old and the platten was hard and warn so often, as she typed, the paper would slip on one side so as she typed there was a slant to the text. Sometimes, it would move well to the next line. When I then tried to scan and OCR the document, it was half mess, half OK OCR text. So, I save it out as a Word document. Some sections were easy to correct, other sections I just hand typed it out. It was the fastest way. And this was only text, no images nothing else. Things really have not gotten any better since then.)

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