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editing PDF in Acrobat

Posted: 10-14-2008, 02:31 AM
Thomas_Peters@adobeforums.com
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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.

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Tom
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Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com
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Re: editing PDF in Acrobat
Posted: 10-14-2008, 06:49 AM
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.

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Re: editing PDF in Acrobat
Posted: 10-17-2008, 02:53 AM
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
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Re: editing PDF in Acrobat
Posted: 10-17-2008, 03:09 AM


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




How exactly did you export them?
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