How to tell if a document is editable from its file name/icon?

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September 26, 2018
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How can I see at a glance, if a PDF will be OCRd and allow me to enlarge text, or is just a photo?

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Correct answer ~graffiti

There is nothing on an icon that will tell you that. You just have to open the document and find out.

That being said, editable or not, you can't do anything like that with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. You need the full version of Acrobat to edit.

~graffiti

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OCR is OCR. Doesn't matter what app does it (although some are better than others). I'm not so sure I personally would take this approach. To me it would be better to OCR the document, convert it to a Word document, edit that then create another pdf of the finished product if you need one. Editing a pdf file is not for the weak of heart.

~graffitiCorrect answer

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There is nothing on an icon that will tell you that. You just have to open the document and find out.

That being said, editable or not, you can't do anything like that with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. You need the full version of Acrobat to edit.

jaineh55932689Author

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Thanks - that's confusing then. Also what is the correct terminology to use - is it editable and non-editable or fillable and flat - or something else

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None of them. It isn't really a type of PDF at all. Some PDFs contain text and some don't. Some have a mixture of scans and text. Could be anything. You have to try to edit it to see whether a PDF suits your wishes.