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How to replaces images of text in PDFs with formatted text using OCR

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Mar 15, 20264963 views
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I get a lot of PDFs from other people consisting of scanned old documents. Unfortunately, sometimes the text on the scans, though legible, looks grainy and is hard to read. What I've been able to do so far is to extract the text, using OCR, into a word document. However, since these old documents o…

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Fix for: How to replaces images of text in PDFs with formatted text using OCR

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Even Adobe's own software is not good at doing this or making clear how to do it. With Adobe Acrobat X, you can create a text layer through the menus (View | Tools | Recognize Text) or by click Tools in the toolbar and then Recognize Text in the Too…

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