How To Clean Up Scanned Pdf Adobe Acrobat Pro Xi

How to Erase and Make clean-up a Scanned PDF in Acrobat 11

I recently received this electronic mail from 1 of my blog readers:

Does Adobe Acrobat have a feature similar to the eraser in the old MS Paint program to edit pdf documents? The feature does be in ScanSoft Paperport (I have version 11). It is very useful to remove stray marks on scanned images, staple marks, fax headers, punched hole marks, etc. If used with extreme zoom, I can remove simply near any marks on the page so it looks like new. Yet, it would be useful to take all the features in one program. I prefer to use Adobe Acrobat to OCR, and otherwise manage PDF documents, but if they need editing I am forced to use ScanSoft Paperport. Also, the file size seems to go way up after I edit the document with Paperport.

At that place are two ways y'all can clean up content in a PDF:

Apply the Redaction tools (Acrobat Pro only) and redact using the "No Color" choice.
See my Redaction Guide for instructions.
Apply the Edit Image option and an external editor to clean up the PDF

I've never written well-nigh the second pick previously, so this seems like a skilful opportunity to do then!

Using an external prototype editor makes the nearly sense for epitome-based PDFs. However, Acrobat can also call a programme to edit vector content, too.

Paradigm Editor Preferences

When you kickoff install Acrobat, the installer program searches for uniform editing programs on your Mac or PC.

The install process volition select Adobe tools— Photoshop for image editing or Illustrator for vector editing— as the defaults, but you may also use tools similar MS Paint.

If you install an image editor after installing Acrobat, yous volition need to tell Acrobat where to find information technology.

To view or change your paradigm editor preferences:

Edit> Preferences (Acrobat> Preferences on the Mac)
Go to the Content Editing category
Click the Image Editor button to find a plan which can edit images
Click OK

Editing an Image in Acrobat XI

With your image editor preferences set, y'all are ready to edit an image embedded in a PDF. Note— this will only work on an image within a PDF or on an scanned PDF document..

Open up a scanned PDF
Open the Tools panel then the Content Editing department, then click on Edit Text and Images
Correct-click on the page, and choose Edit Using> and select the image editor of your choice:
The image of the page will open in your editor of pick (Photoshop below). Use the appropriate tool(s) such as the eraser tool to clean upwards the epitome.
Close the document and the following message (or similar) should appear. Click Aye.
Switch back to Acrobat and the page will update:
Save the file.