How to Edit a Scanned Document in Acrobat 8
Before you edit a scanned PDF file in Acrobat, you have to go through the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) process. OCR converts image data into text. Here is how you do that:
- Open your scanned document in Acrobat
- Go to Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text
- When the OCR menu appears select All Pages unless you only have one page
- Click Edit and from the PDF Output menu choose Formatted Text and Graphics
- Click OK and run the OCR process
- Finally, to edit text, go to Tools > Advanced Editing and choose the Touchup Text Tool
- Click on your text and make changes!
