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Straighten distorted text in an image file

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August 18, 2017
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I have a jpeg file where the texts in it are distorted due to scanning issues,

How can I use photoshop to straighten the text on the left side of the image?

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Correct answer Trevor.Dennis

Drag down a guide to align with the good text.

Select just the problem area.

Use Free Transform, and hold down the Ctrl key while dragging up the centre left handle until that part of the text aligns with the guide.

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rissan308357137ajx

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how to fix distorted text in an image

davescm

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Hi

You could :

1. Make a selection of the left part of the text with the issue

2. Use Ctrl+J to copy it to a new layer

3. Right click and make that copy into a smart object

4. Use Transform Warp to bend it into shape

Dave

davescm

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Having posted the Photoshop answer , as did Trevor, in reality I wouldn't do either of the above.

I would drop it into Acrobat DC and use OCR to turn it into editable text and reformat slightly. Screenshot below:

Dave

davescm

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So I need to do an OCR in Acrobat DC then reformat but what do you mean here by reformat?

mrnewbie10 wrote
So I need to do an OCR in Acrobat DC then reformat but what do you mean here by reformat?

Hi

When you edit PDF in Acrobat it will turn the text into editable text characters but initially they will not be in perfect straight lines (given the bend it will have picked up at the edge). So you will have a little formatting/editing to do to get the characters into straight lines. You can do that in Acrobat or drop it into a word processor such as MS-Word if you are more familiar with it.

The good thing is you will end up with clean text characters in a text document that will print well and look much better than a jpeg scan.

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

Correct answer

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Drag down a guide to align with the good text.

Select just the problem area.

Use Free Transform, and hold down the Ctrl key while dragging up the centre left handle until that part of the text aligns with the guide.

J

Jessica28208830orlr

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I am editing some older scanned magazine articles, so redoing all of the text in them would not have made it look authentic. This was the perfect, easy solution for me. Thank you!

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