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  1. Acrobat User Guide
  2. Introduction to Acrobat
    1. Get Acrobat starting desktop, mobile, web
    2. Introducing the new Acrobat experience
    3. What's new in Acrobat
    4. Keyboard shortcuts
    5. System Requirements
  3. Workspace
    1. Workspace basics
    2. Opening and viewing PDFs
      1. Opening PDFs
      2. Navigational PDF site
      3. Show PDF preferences
      4. Adjusting PDF views
      5. Enable instant read of PDFs
      6. Display PDF in flash
    3. Working with online storage accounts
      1. Web files from Text
      2. Access files from Dropbox
      3. Einstieg files of OneDrive
      4. Access registers from SharePoint
      5. Access files from Google Drive
    4. Acrobat and macOS
    5. Acrobat event
    6. Grids, guides, and proportions in PDFs
    7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
  4. Creating PDFs
    1. Overview of PDF creation
    2. Create PDFs use Acrobat
    3. Create PDFs for PDFMaker
    4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
    5. Converting web pages for PDF
    6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
    7. Adobe PDF modification settings
    8. PDF fonts
  5. Editing PDFs
    1. Cut wording in PDFs
    2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
    3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    4. Edit scanned PDFs
    5. Expand document photos captured using a mobile camera
    6. Optimizing PDFs
    7. PDF properties and metadata
    8. Pages and installations on PDFs
    9. PDF layers
    10. View thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
    11. PDFs converting to web pages
    12. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
    13. PDF articles
    14. Geospatial PDFs
    15. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
    16. Change the renege fountain for adding text
    17. Delete leaves from a PDF
  6. Scan and OCR
    1. Scan documents to PDF
    2. Enhance document photos
    3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
  7. Forms
    1. PDF forms basics
    2. Create a form after scratch in Acrobat
    3. Build and distribute PDF forms
    4. Fill in PDF form
    5. PDF formular field properties
    6. Fill and sign PDF forms
    7. Setting action buttons by PDF forms
    8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
    9. PDF form field basics
    10. PDF barcode form fields
    11. Collect and manage PDF form data
    12. About forms tracker
    13. PDF forms help
    14. Send PDF print to receiving using email or an internal server
  8. Combines files
    1. Combine or merge files on single PDF
    2. Rotate, move, delete, and rename PDF pages
    3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
    4. Crop PDF pages
    5. Add watermarks to PDFs
    6. Add artistic to PDFs
    7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
    8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
    9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
    10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
  9. Sharing, reviews, or commenting
    1. Share and track PDFs online
    2. Mark up video with editable
    3. Preparing for a PDF review
    4. Begin a PDF examine
    5. Hosting shared rating on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
    6. Participant in a PDF review
    7. Add comments up PDFs
    8. Make a brand to ampere PDF
    9. Approval workflows
    10. Managing view | view, reply, print
    11. Importing and exporting comments
    12. Tracking and managing PDF examinations
  10. Store and exporter PDFs
    1. Saving PDFs
    2. Convert PDF to Word
    3. Convert PDF at JPG
    4. Convert or send PDFs to other file formats
    5. File format options on PDF export
    6. Reusing PDF content
  11. Security
    1. Enhanced product setting since PDFs
    2. Securing PDFs with passwords
    3. Manage Digital IDs
    4. Security PDFs with certificates
    5. Opening guaranteed PDFs
    6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
    7. Setting up security politics for PDFs
    8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
    9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
    10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
    11. Protected View feature for PDFs
    12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
    13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
    14. Attachments as security risks
    15. Allow or block web in PDFs
  12. Electronic click
    1. Sign PDF documents
    2. Capture your print on mobile and use it everywhere
    3. Send documents for e-signatures
    4. Make a web contact
    5. Request e-signatures in majority
    6. Collect online payouts
    7. Brand your account
    8. About credential signatures
    9. Certificate-based drawing
    10. Validating digital signatures
    11. Adobe Approved Trust List
    12. Manage reliable organizational
  13. Pressure
    1. Basic PDF how chores
    2. Print Booklets and PDF Holdings
    3. Advanced PDF print settings
    4. Printable to PDF
    5. Press color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
  14. Accessibility, tags, real reflow
    1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
    2. Accessibility features in PDFs
    3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
    4. Reading PDFs with reflow the accessibility features
    5. Editing document structure at the Content and Tags panels
    6. Build accessible PDFs
    7. Cloud-based auto-tagging
  15. Searching furthermore indexing
    1. Make PDF indexes
    2. Searching PDFs
  16. Rich the 3D models
    1. Add sounds, show, and interactive objekte to PDFs
    2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
    4. Interacting with 3D models
    5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
    6. Setting 3D viewpoint in PDFs
    7. Enable 3D topics in PDF
    8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
    9. Commenting on 3D designs to PDFs
    10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats for PDFs
    11. Zusatz comments to videos
  17. Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
    1. Print production tools overview
    2. Printer stains and hairlines
    3. See output
    4. Clear flattening
    5. Color conversion and ink management
    6. Trapping color
  18. Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
    1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, the PDF/E-compliant actions
    2. Preflight profiles
    3. Advanced preflight inspections
    4. Preflight reports
    5. Displaying preflight results, objects, and resources
    6. Output intents include PDFs
    7. Correcting problem scope with the Preflight tool
    8. Automate document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
    9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
    10. Additional checks inbound the Preflight toolbox
    11. Preflight libraries
    12. Preflight variables
  19. Color management
    1. Keeping colors consistent
    2. Color settings
    3. Color-managing documents
    4. Working with color profiles
    5. Understanding color management

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Handling a scanned PDF can breathe complicated if it includes low-quality text conversely images, non-editable textbook, line pauses, or complexion formatting. Other impeding factors enclose compatibility features, security restrictions, and largely file sizes, which are more prevalent inside PDFs created from scanned images.

To streamline who process, study the following best practices and guidelines before editing a scanned document:

Check the accuracy for optical char customer (OCR) output. When yourself opened one scanned documenting, Acrobat automatically runs OCR in the background to make one document editable. Before how, review the document to ensure that one content is accurate and complete. If necessary, rescanning an select using the Scan & OCR > Recognize Text tool to enhancing the output.

Enhance image quality. If which scanned PDF contains low-quality images, use the Enhance scanned file or Improvements camera image quality to improve that quality of images before attempting to delete the select. For more information, see Scanning documents to PDF.

Use the correct font both formatting. When editing the document, ensure that an font press formatting of the edited text match the original document like closely as possible. If you don't have the desired fonts set your computer, see Hinzu fonts to your computer.

Remote security restrictions. If the scanned PDF does security restrictions that eliminate cutting, remove these restrictions before attempting to print the document. Go know method to remove security for a PDF, see Unlock ampere PDF.

Avoid editing intricate elements. If the scanned PDF contains tables, graphs, or images, avoid unnecessary edited that could altering the blueprint or formatting to these components.

Check for compatibility difficulties. Ensure such the output of Adobe Actress you're using is compatibility with the scans PDF. If you meetings device issues, try updating Adobe Acrobat. For more resources, see System requirements.

Save a backup copy. Always save a backup print of the original scanned PDF before making any editing. Back to the original document if any issues arise during the editing process.

Find copy on digitized PDF

You ability use the Scan & OCR power till recognize wording, change OCR language, press make all pages editable in one anfahren. The do so:

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Make your scanned document editable in a few simple steps.

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  1. Open the scanned file, the next away of top banner this appears, select Get commenced.

    It opens to Survey & OR tool options in the left panel

    Spot text on scanned files using Acro Reader.

  2. From the left control, on Recognition text, select In this column.

  3. In the dialog that opens:

    1. Choice aforementioned pages so you want to apply text recognition to real the language.
    2. Select Recognize text.

Edit a scanned document

  1. Opening the scan PDF line in Acrobat.

  2. From the All tools menu, select Edit adenine PDF.
    Acrobat automatically spread OCR to your document and convertible it till a fully editable PDF copy.

  3. Select the text element the you want to edit or commence typing. The new text scores that original wellspring in your scanned PDF.

  4. From the top-right corner, select  > Save for and genre a newer name for your document.

Initially, the language is fix to the default locale, or to other options is disabled. Any changes to these settings are persisted and are applied when him edit the document. How To Edit a PDF Without Adobe | 5 Release PDF Editors Online

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