2007-03-21 05:44:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Scanners
You need to user OCR to translate the text into editable text during your scan. Most scanner should come with software to do this, or there should be OCR built-in to MS Office as long as your scanner is compatible.
2007-03-21 05:53:44 · answer #1 · answered by ClayMeow 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might be able to edit it if you have Adobe Acrobat (the actual program, not just the reader). Most PDF files are not editable.
Best solution is to scan the document use OCR, Optical Character Recognition, to be able to edit the text in a document. There should be some options for this in your scanner software manual.
Good luck.
2007-03-21 12:55:36 · answer #2 · answered by Charlie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you scan in an item, it is convert by adobe into a "picture" of the original document. It is no longer a "text" document and can not be edited. It is a picture of the words.
2007-03-21 12:50:23 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adobe documents can be edited with the proper Adobe patch. It costs money to obtain a software program that allows you to take out text, change words, rearrange words, etc.
The software is called Adobe Professional
2007-03-21 12:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by Sirena 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photshop and some other image programs will open pdf, but it's still an image - you can't edit it like a regular text document. But you can use omnipage or another OCR program to convert it to text then edit it in Word or the like. Office 2003 comes with one (Office Imaging it's called - you'll need to rescan using that program and it converts to text for you)
2007-03-21 12:52:16 · answer #5 · answered by Oguz1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't edit it in adobe but try selecting the text (using the select button at the top) and see if you can copy it into word and edit it from there??
2007-03-21 12:52:54 · answer #6 · answered by leigh k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I struggled with that, but I'd like to see the answers. Scan in Omnipage, it's incredible and editable.
2007-03-21 12:54:11 · answer #7 · answered by Peter V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't as adobe just literally gives you a scanned copy, a bit like holding the paper in your hand. you'd have to retype it
2007-03-21 12:48:34 · answer #8 · answered by Andromeda Newton™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need ocr software it converts a scanned image to a word document this is the only free one i could find
http://www.spyfind.com/ocr.html
2007-03-21 12:53:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cut and paste the text into wordpad and save as a.txt document .
2007-03-21 13:58:43 · answer #10 · answered by iggytog 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋