Can i edit a scanned document in adobe

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    How to edit a scanned image in Acrobat. Adobe Employee ,

    /t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-edit-a-scanned-image-in-acrobat/td-p/10601600 Sep 09, 2019 Sep 09, 2019

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    Acrobat seamlessly converts your paper documents to editable PDFs. Our OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts the document into editable PDF and text with correctly recognized fonts in the document.

    To know more how to edit, please click the following topics:

    • How to edit a scanned PDF
    • How to edit images or objects in a PDF
    • Edit XFA forms
    • Edit secured PDFs
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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-edit-a-scanned-image-in-acrobat/m-p/10610070#M150002 Sep 15, 2019 Sep 15, 2019

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    thx - very easy to comprehend some essential Adobe capabilities - I appreciate your help in being so handy and informational Dariq,

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-edit-a-scanned-image-in-acrobat/m-p/10646040#M152552 Oct 02, 2019 Oct 02, 2019

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    I have scanned hundreds of pages and the their images can not be altered for historic reasons. However, some of the original pages contain misspellings of things we want to find in a search, such as names. Is there any way to insert the the correct spelling so a search would find the page?

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    /t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-edit-a-scanned-image-in-acrobat/m-p/10646202#M152568 Oct 02, 2019 Oct 02, 2019

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    Thanks for reaching out. As described above, you want to edit the text in the scanned document, correct?

    Acrobat can easily turn your scanned documents into editable PDFs. 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.

    Please try the steps below and check if that works for you

    • Open the scanned PDF file in Acrobat.
    • Choose Tools > Edit PDF .
    • Click the text element you want to edit and start typing. New text matches the look of the original fonts in your scanned image.
    • Choose File > Save As and type a new name for your editable document.

    Let us know how it goes