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---------------------------------------------- Bill Bell Asst. Technology Coordinator Monticello CUSD #25 Monticello, IL 61856 http://www.cafepress.com/tech-geeks ---------------------------------------------- On 9/21/10 7:42 AM, "Jim Hays" <hay...@sages.us> wrote: > People don't seem to understand exactly what a PDF is. It all depends > on how the PDF was created. If the PDF was created with Acrobat, you > stand a much better chance of editing the file. If the file was created > by scanning a paper document on a copier, that is a different story. Of > course, it is a PDF, but it is a PDF that consists of a large IMAGE. > The PDF code just "wraps up the image" so that a standard PDF reader can > display it. There is no text to edit only an image. > > As someone has mentioned here, you could use a good OCR package to > convert the image into text but this is not really a PDF editor. You > could convert the image to text with the OCR package if it were a JPG, > GIF, PNG or other image formated file. > > As Tom states, you could open the PDF file with GIMP and then use layers > to overlay small parts of the document with new text. This wold require > matching fonts and font sizes and would rely heavily on trial and > error. It can be done and the result can be saved as a PDF. > > Of course the best way to edit a PDF is to have access to the original > document from which the PDF was created and edit that document - > probably a Word document - saving the edited document as a PDF. > > I often get asked how to edit a PDF document that was scanned from the > copier. My answer is this. "If I could edit a PDF file that was > created with a document, I would not be working here. I would be a > wealthy man and would not need to work." > > > > > Jared Lynn wrote: >> On a similar topic, what would you use to edit the text that you have >> scanned in? >> Jared Lynn >> PORTA CUSD #202 Technology Coordinator >> E-mail: jl...@porta202.org <mailto:jl...@porta202.org> >> Phone: 217-501-4920 >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Steele, Thomas C >> <tste...@manteno5.org <mailto:tste...@manteno5.org>> wrote: >> >> and for those more complex documents, Photoshop (and I think >> GIMP) can render PDF files as a graphic. You would not be able to >> edit type (you could replace it with a new text box) but you can >> use the selection tools to move things around or add elements. >> >> >> >> -TS >> >> >> >> Thomas C. Steele >> Technology Director >> Manteno CUSD #5 >> >> >> > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
