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Having trouble deleting text from pdf

New Here ,
Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Hi.

I'm new to using Adobe Acrobat. I've just donwloaded Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and I'm trying to delete a sentence from a document. I've managed to draw a box around the text but I'm pressing the delete key and the backspace key but it won't delete the text, just the box. I'm using Windows Vista.

Hope you can help me with this.

Rachel

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Community Expert , Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

Acrobat is not a text editor. You can delete text using the redaction tool,

but that will not cause the rest of the text to move "into place", like when

you use Word, for example.

The best way is to edit the original file and then re-create the PDF.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Acrobat is not a text editor. You can delete text using the redaction tool,

but that will not cause the rest of the text to move "into place", like when

you use Word, for example.

The best way is to edit the original file and then re-create the PDF.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

Could you suggest how to re-create the pdf please?

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Do you have the original file that was used to create the PDF?

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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It was letter sent to me and I scanned it on to my laptop.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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In that case there's nothing much to do. You can use the redaction tool, or

try the text touch-up tool, but don't expect much.

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New Here ,
Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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I don't seem to be having much luck with the touch up tool. I've drawn a box around the text but I can't change the text at all.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Did you OCR the file? If not, then you don't have "real" text, just an image

containing text.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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When I use the OCR the logo doesn't get recognised and looks nothing like it should do. Also the layout of the document changes.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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So you have no option but to use the redaction tool.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Could you explain how I use this tool please? I have tried to delete the text but it doesn't seem to be working.

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Jul 22, 2010 Jul 22, 2010

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Read this:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2993243#2993243

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