Re: Acrobat XI Pro text recognition problem

Subject: Re: Acrobat XI Pro text recognition problem
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:13:25 -0700

Use something other than Acrobat to scan the text.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Acrobat recognizes the text in the PDFs--you can select and copy it,
> highlight, and so on. What you can't do is actually edit it. When I open
> the "Editing text & Images" tool, I don't get the usual boxes around
> paragraphs of text that allow me to edit, delete, and insert words.
> Instead, Acrobat seems to see the whole page as an uneditable image.
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