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partially edit a selected area of PDF documents

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Jul 26, 2016 Jul 26, 2016

Can we adjust the setting in Acrobat 9.0 Standard to partially edit a selected area of PDF docuents?

I would like to know whether we can change its setting to narrow the scope of editing only to designated areas, and whether we can change the font, size or space between
letters.

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Enthusiast ,
Jul 26, 2016 Jul 26, 2016

I don't use it the Acrobat 9.0 standard but off course you can change/edit the font, size or space between letter in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC by selecting the text.

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New Here ,
Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025

This actually does not ask the question at hand, which I also came to find. Sometimes in Acrobat - say if you have scanned a document - it combines items from different rows or paragraphs into one. If one wishes to edit the document, but to change the highlighted field to be edited, how would they do that. It is very not obvious! Any idea? 

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Sep 09, 2025 Sep 09, 2025
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A scanned document can't be edited directly because  each page is a single image, as oposed to a combination of text and graphics, which can be edited directly.

 

However, it is possible.  OCR the PDF first.  If you have a new version of Acrobat, then selecting the "PDF Edit" toolswill automatically OCR the page and break it into what it thinks are text and graphics. But  OCR is tricky and if it's a bad scan, you'll get bad results. 

 

 

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScripting
Use the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

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