editing PDF in Acrobat

[Thomas_Peters@adobeforums.com]

Is there any less painful way to edit PDF files than with Acrobat Pro ? I am trying to edit text in scanned documents and I constantly am getting error messages about font encoding that prevent me from changing fonts. Acrobat seems to understand the there are word-font-objects, but it wont let me change them.

Barring an easier edit, is there any good way to export PDF files into formatted text ? I tried the export command and it comes out garbage-y.

thanks,

Tom

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

There probably isn't a less painful way to edit PDFs, but if you want
to do large scale editing of scans, maybe PDF isn't the way to go.
Scanning to a simple OCR package that makes plain text might be
better.

Aandi Inston

[Thomas_Peters@adobeforums.com]

The problem is that the docs I am trying to edit are already scans, turned into PDF and then I OCR-ed them. Editing is a pain.

There must be something that allows you to treat the PDF more like a text document, somewhere ?

thanks,

Tom

[graffiti]

I tried the export command and it comes out garbage-y.




How exactly did you export them?