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Editing PDFs
Last updated 4/7/2015
Select multiple items if you want to edit them together in the same file. To edit all the images and objects on the page,
right-click the page, and choose Select All.
3 Under Objects in the right hand panel, click Edit Using and then choose an editor.
To choose a different editor than offered on the menu, select Open With, locate the application, and click Open.
Note: If a message asks whether to convert to ICC profiles, choose Don’t Convert. If the image window displays a
checkerboard pattern when it opens, the image data could not be read.
4 Make the desired changes in the external editing application. Keep in mind the following restrictions:
• If you change the dimensions of the image, the image may not align correctly in the PDF.
• Transparency information is preserved only for masks that are specified as index values in an indexed color
space.
• If you are working in Photoshop, flatten the image.
• Image masks are not supported.
• If you change image modes while editing the image, you may lose valuable information that can be applied only
in the original mode.
5 In the editing application, choose File > Save. The object is automatically updated and displayed in the PDF when
you bring Acrobat DC to the foreground.
Note: For Photoshop, if the image is in a format supported by Photoshop 6.0 or later, your edited image is saved back
into the PDF. However, if the image is in an unsupported format, Photoshop handles the image as a generic PDF image,
and the edited image is saved to disk instead of back into the PDF.
• Edit text in PDFs
• Edit scanned PDFs
• Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
• Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels (Acrobat Pro)
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Edit scanned PDFs
Scan any paper documents to PDF and easily turn them into editable PDFs.
Edit text in scanned PDFs
When you open a scanned document for editing, Acrobat DC 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. Also, a prompt on upper-right corner appears showing you the recognized OCR language. It also points you
to the settings button if you want to change the OCR language.
By default, only the current page is converted to editable text instead of the entire document in one go. As you move
from one page to another, the page in focus is made editable.
To edit text in a scanned PDF
1 Open the scanned PDF file in Acrobat DC.