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1 Chapter 1 : Editing Text in a Scanned Document Adobe Community Edit Article How to Edit Text After Scanning. In this Article: Extracting Your Scanned Text Using Other Extractors Community Q&A Optical character recognition (OCR) is a term for software that can recognize text characters in an image, and OCR software typically allows you to extract text from an image, which is the first step to editing it. While they are superb for display purposes, they do not get the job done as far as editing goes. PDF files normally cannot be edited, and this can leave some users scratching their heads. Fortunately, a quick conversion to TIFF format and the use of the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program in conjunction with Microsoft Word can result in an editable scanned image document. Power on your scanner and access the scanner bed. Ensure that your image is properly scanned. Make sure the edges of the document are lined up smoothly and precisely on the scanner bed. Scan the image in black and white. Scanning in color can result in a document that has errors and readability issues after converting to another image format. Color scanning may also result in shaded text, which you will want to avoid. This will be necessary for opening the image document into an external program later. To scan the image, select the "Acquire Image" function or just hit the dedicated button on your specific scanner unit. While the TIFF file will be large, it maintains the quality of the image and is most compatible for editing. Install Microsoft Office Document Imaging. To do so, click on the "Control Panel" on your desktop, and then click on "Programs" and then "Programs and Features. Click on "Installation Options. Open your scanned TIFF file into this program. This loading can be performed from the "File" menu the circular Windows button at the top left in Word and by browsing your computer for the name of your TIFF file. Open a blank document from the file menu. Edit as you please, and then save your new document. You can write to a scanned image document that would otherwise not be accessible in the future using the tandem of Microsoft Office Document Imaging and Microsoft Word, so long as the document comes saved in the TIFF format. Page 1

2 Chapter 2 : How to Edit a Scanned Image Document It Still Works This step enables the software to recognize the text in the scanned document in order to allow for its editing. Step Select the page or pages you want the program to scan for recognizable text using the "Current page" or "From page" options on the Recognize Text window. When you open a scanned document for editing, Acrobat automatically runs OCR optical character recognition in the background and converts the document into editable image and text with correctly recognized fonts in the document. It also points you to the settings button if you want to change the OCR language. By default, only the current page is converted to editable text instead of the entire document in one go. As you move from one page to another, the page in focus is made editable. A prompt on the upper-right corner appears showing you the recognized OCR language. To change the language, click Settings in the prompt or in the right pane. Click the text element you want to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image. Options for editing scanned documents When you open a scanned document for editing, the two scan-specific options are displayed in the right pane under Scanned Documents: It shows options to select OCR language, use system fonts, and make all pages editable at one go. It allows switching from text-to-image or image-to-text editing mode. Settings - OCR language, system fonts, and all pages editable Use the settings to change OCR language, choose whether to use system fonts, and make all pages editable at one go. The dialog box shows the following three settings: By default the OCR language is picked from default locale. Use available system font: If this option is checked, during the process of scanned to editable text conversion, the converted text is displayed in a font that is installed on the system and is a closest match to the original font in the scanned page. Make all the pages editable: It is a relatively slower option. Use this option only if you want to edit all pages or convert all pages to editable text. Initially, the language is set to the default locale and the other options are disabled. Therefore, when you open a scanned document for editing, the current page is converted to editable text. To turn off automatic OCR: From next time, Acrobat will automatically run OCR and convert a scanned document to editable text. Option to turn on automatic OCR More like this. Page 2

3 Chapter 3 : [Solved] Editing a scanned document (View topic) â Apache OpenOffice Community Forum Provided you scanned the document properly, Microsoft OneNote will capture any images and text in the document and send them to Word, in which you can easily edit them. All this is a simple. Place your document on the document table. See Placing Documents or Photos for details. You see this window: Select your scanner from the Get Images From list. Select the language used in the document you are going to scan as the Document Language setting. Click the icon for the type of document you want to scan to. Epson Scan starts in the last mode you used. Change the scan mode to Home Mode if necessary. See Changing the Scan Mode for instructions. Select Printer or Other as the Destination setting. If you select Other, select as the Resolution setting. Click Preview to preview your document. The Preview window appears and displays your document. See Previewing and Adjusting the Scan Area for instructions. Modify the image quality if necessary. Your document is scanned and processed into editable text. If the characters in your text are not recognized very well, you can improve recognition by selecting the Text Enhancement check box or adjusting the Threshold setting. When you see the Document Conversion window with the finished message, click Close in the Epson Scan window. See Placing Documents or Photos for instructions. Click either the Scan to Other Formats icon or the icon that corresponds with the program you want to scan to. If you see the Select Scanner window, select your product and click OK. Do not select a WIA option for your product; it will not work correctly. Select your scan settings. Click Preview and adjust the area you want to scan, if necessary. To scan a multi-page document, select settings in the Multi-Page Scanning section and click Scan for each page. When you are finished scanning, click Close. Your document is scanned and processed into editable text, then you see the Save As window. Select a name and a file format for your document and click Save. The file is saved and then opened in an application associated with the file type you selected, if available on your system. Page 3

4 Chapter 4 : Scan and edit a document - Word How to Edit Scanned PDF Files with OCR Technology Scanned PDF documents are some of the most difficult file types to work with. When you scan a document and save it directly in a PDF format, all text, diagrams, graphics and images are merged into a large image file which can't be edited. By clicking the button, I agree to the privacy policy and to hear about offers or services. Skip and Download Start your free trial! Thanks for choosing a trial of PDFelement. The download should begin automatically. Please enter the required information and try again. If you want to make a scanned document easier to work with, you will need to deconstruct the large image into manageable elements in the document. Select the file and click "Open" to upload your file into the software. Click the "Perform OCR" button and the software will ask you to choose the language source of the PDF file to assist it with recognizing the text. Open the "Edit" tab to see the range of edits you can do to your scanned PDF file. Modify the text on your PDF by clicking "Edit". Click anywhere on the document to add, delete or change the existing text. Add a new set of texts by clicking on the "Add Text" button. Click "Edit Objects" to edit images and diagrams. You can delete the object by right-clicking it and choose the "Delete" option. You can also cut or copy objects using this step. Select the object to reposition it around your document. To add a new image file on the document, click the "Add Image" button. Once you are happy with your file, go to "File" and select the "Save as" option. Choose the destination folder and then hit the "Save" button. The best scanned PDF editing tool is able to edit, convert, create, protect, sign and print your PDF files, as well as complete PDF forms without the need to print them out. It does a great job retaining the appearance of the document while converting it into a readable, editable and searchable PDF file. It supports a wide range of languages e. Chapter 5 : Edit Scanned Documents Online DL Template Bank Statement SSN OCR Scan a document as a PDF file and edit it in Word Tip: The conversion works best with documents that are mostly text. Scan your document according to the instructions for your scanner, and save it to your computer as theinnatdunvilla.com file. Chapter 6 : How to Edit a Scanned Document in Word theinnatdunvilla.com How to Edit a Scanned PDF Document Often times, we come across a scanned PDF document that we need to edit. Scanned PDFs are basically images locked inside a PDF that simply cannot be edited using a regular PDF editing software. Chapter 7 : How to Edit a Scanned PDF Document theinnatdunvilla.com I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document. After scanning the document, I have theinnatdunvilla.com with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload. Chapter 8 : How to Edit a Scanned Document (with Pictures) - wikihow I am trying to edit scanned text in Adobe Acrobat Standard DC. I am not able to do so unless I convert to a Word file format. The purpose is to copy and paste text out of the PDF. Chapter 9 : PDF editor, edit text in PDF files Adobe Acrobat DC This wikihow teaches you how to edit the text of a document that you scanned into your computer. The technology behind turning visual representations of text into actual text is called Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. You Page 4

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University of Arizona Information Commons Training 1 USER S GUIDE Software/Hardware Module: ADOBE ACROBAT 7 Objective: Scan and create PDF Documents using Adobe Acrobat Software p.1 Introduction p.2 Scanning