Text duplicated in PDF

[caileec5637304]

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.

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

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

[caileec5637304]

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.

[Bernd Alheit]

What OCR options does you use?

[caileec5637304]

Here's what my settings look like under Enhance

[Bernd Alheit]

Try the use of Recognize Text at Scan & OCR.