Wanting to edit keyborad text on a scanned document with handwriting on it

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I am trying to edit keyboard text of a book that was scanned to pdf and has a bunch of handwritten notes on it. This isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I used the OCR in acrobat Pro and tried to erase and add text but the page started to get hard to control. Everything is moving out of line. Can someone explain what I will need to do to acomplish this?

gary_sc · Answer

If you have handwritten notes, squiggles, coffee stains, etc., that are overlapping text that you want to OCR, there will be issues. You can try to take these documents and open them in Photoshop to remove the handwritten stuff, etc., but that will be tedious work. It often is the case that it's easier to retype the text than to try to OCR over such text. Can you get a copy of the book without the handwritten notes?

Also, just in case you might find this handy, here's a blog I wrote some years back on scanning and OCR.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-community-professionals/scanning-clean-searchable-pdfs/m-p/4785435?page=1#M89

Good luck!

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