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caileec5637304
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March 16, 2023
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Text duplicated in PDF

  • March 16, 2023
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I'm not sure how to fully explain this issue. I have a PDF that I need to be able to highlight, but when I try, it highlights multiple "invisible" boxes.

 

When I optimize the text it looks like this, and you can see it has the article multiplied over top of itself:

There are no layers, but when I go into edit, you can see all of the bounding boxes for text:

Is there an easy way to clean up this pdf? I've never seen anything like this before.

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Correct answer Bernd Alheit

Export the pages as TIFF files, create a new PDF file from the TIFF files, and use OCR on the new file.

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Bernd Alheit
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Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 16, 2023

Export the pages as TIFF files, create a new PDF file from the TIFF files, and use OCR on the new file.

    caileec5637304
    caileec5637304Author
    Participant
    March 16, 2023

    This worked great! Thank you. 🙂

     

    Would you by chance know how to clean up the text? It seemed to make the blue text an image and its a lower quality. I ran it through to save it as a Press-Ready PDF and it seemed to make it worse.

     

    caileec5637304
    caileec5637304Author
    Participant
    March 17, 2023

    What OCR options does you use?


    Here's what my settings look like under Enhance

     

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