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including commenting, editing, page rearranging, and more. If you edit a PDF file in
the preview pane, the changes you make will be temporarily saved back to the file
itself in the portfolio. To save the modified PDF, you need to save the portfolio
before closing the portfolio. Note: If you need to modify a PDF in the portfolio and save
the modified PDF as a new file outside the portfolio, open the PDF file in its native
application (i.e. a new file tab in the Foxit PDF Editor application window), and save it
using the Save As command after editing.
OCR PDFs and PDF Portfolios
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a software process that enables images or
printed text to be translated into machine-readable text. OCR is most commonly used
when scanning paper documents to create electronic copies, but can also be
performed on existing electronic documents (e.g. PDF or PDF portfolio).
 Recognize text
Foxit PDF Editor can detect whether a PDF file is scanned or image-based and make
corresponding suggestions to initiate OCR when opening a scanned or image-based
PDF. You can also run OCR anytime to recognize the image-based text in a PDF.
To recognize image-based or scanned text in a PDF file, perform the following steps:
1. Click Convert > Recognize Text > Current File, in the Recognize Text dialog box,
specify the page range you need.
2. Choose the language used in your document. You can select multiple languages
as well.
3. In the output type, check Searchable Text Image to make the image text
selectable and searchable (or check Editable Text to enable the image text to be
edited with Foxit PDF Editor). Then click OK to recognize the text.
• Searchable Text Image: During the OCR process, Foxit PDF Editor
analyzes the image text and substitutes words/characters that closely
approximates the image text. The substitute words/characters will be
placed on an invisible layer of text in the PDF, which makes the image text
selectable and searchable. If the substitution is uncertain, the text will be
marked as OCR suspects which need to be corrected manually.
• Editable Text: During the OCR process, Foxit PDF Editor compares the
shape of the image text to the approximate fonts installed on your system,
and turns the image text into editable text.