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1. Re: How can I OCR only part of a long document?
CtDave Jun 24, 2014 3:56 PM (in response to runuz)Acrobat 8 through XI (at least the Pro versions) provide the Redaction tool.
Used properly this tool completely removes the selected PDF page content.
(so it is good to read the application Help for this).
Be well...
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2. Re: How can I OCR only part of a long document?
runuz Jun 25, 2014 8:43 AM (in response to runuz)Redaction will certainly do the job but it is horribly tedious**. My document is 19 pages. With 3 such redactions per page I am looking at close to 60 redactions, one at a time. All the redactions are identical. That is, the stuff I want to remove on the left side of the page is the same for each of the 19 pages. Same with the stuff to be removed on the right and the bottom. I can't see any way to apply my redaction to more than 1 page at a time. If doing so is impossible is there a way to extract (by cropping or otherwise) the part of the page I want to use? Obviously it is the same for all 19 pages. Is it possible that what I want to remove is in some removable "layer" separate from the text in question?
**Even more tedious than the low tech solution I have been using for the occasions when I confronted this problem:
- Print a copy of the document
- Using scissors cut out the stuff I want to get rid of, a few pages at a time.
- Using Acrobat scan the resulting document
- Save the result as a PDF file
- Open the PDF file and save is as a Word file
- Open the Word file and copy/paste the absurdly formatted text into a clean Word document. This strips out the bizarre formatting due to the scanning process.
- Clean up the new Word document, save it and
- Finally get to work using the text.
FYI the test I want to extract or get consists of written interrogatories or questions for which I must prepare responses. I want the responses to include the questions.



