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Text duplicated in PDF

Community Beginner ,
Mar 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023

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.

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

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

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

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Edit and convert PDFs , PDF forms , Scan documents and OCR
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Community Expert ,
Mar 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023

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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Community Expert ,
Mar 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023

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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Community Beginner ,
Mar 16, 2023 Mar 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.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

What OCR options does you use?

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

Here's what my settings look like under Enhance

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Community Expert ,
Mar 18, 2023 Mar 18, 2023
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Try the use of Recognize Text at Scan & OCR.

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