HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
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HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
I have a very old version of PaperPort, version 9 that will allow me to scan and save as a PDF. I can then highlight words on the saved PDF but for some reason when I use PDF-Xchange I can't do the same thing. I just purchased a license and maybe I am missing something but if I can't mark up a scanned page, I have wasted my money. Not happy about that one. What am I missing?
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
Hi jsjag1990,
To be able to highlight text in a PDF document with the viewer there must be actual text and not an image of text. Think of a screen shot of a Word document, you can see the text but cannot make changes. So to be able to scan a document and end up with text and not an image there must be an OCR option with your scanner. This is quite common. I recommend examining your documentation for your scanner, see if this is an option, and enable it. That will produce text based PDFs. not image based ones.
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Jamie.
To be able to highlight text in a PDF document with the viewer there must be actual text and not an image of text. Think of a screen shot of a Word document, you can see the text but cannot make changes. So to be able to scan a document and end up with text and not an image there must be an OCR option with your scanner. This is quite common. I recommend examining your documentation for your scanner, see if this is an option, and enable it. That will produce text based PDFs. not image based ones.
Regards,
Jamie.
Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
Thanks for the idea but I can't find any controls in the scanner that will set scan to PDF text.
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
You can always highlight words on an image using the rectangle tool.
Open the properties toolbar and set the rectangle fill colour to yellow or whatever highlight colour you want, set the border width to zero, and the transparency to 40%. Then right-click on the rectangle and set the current properties to the default.
Open the properties toolbar and set the rectangle fill colour to yellow or whatever highlight colour you want, set the border width to zero, and the transparency to 40%. Then right-click on the rectangle and set the current properties to the default.
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
Thanks for the idea "You can always highlight words on an image using the rectangle tool. " it is a work around and works for me.
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
JSJAG1990
paperport requires ocr software to produce "PDF text" If you try and index a scanned document and don't have ocr software it will throw an error message.
I use paperport at work but didnt want to fork out for a copy for home..fortunately the software "MP Navigator" that came with my canon scanner gives me the option of scan to "TEXT OCR" and saves as a pdf.
paperport requires ocr software to produce "PDF text" If you try and index a scanned document and don't have ocr software it will throw an error message.
I use paperport at work but didnt want to fork out for a copy for home..fortunately the software "MP Navigator" that came with my canon scanner gives me the option of scan to "TEXT OCR" and saves as a pdf.
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Pleased u got there
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
Hi,
there is an even better work-around, that was posted here some time ago:
Make a style for the line-tool with appropriate width and color and set the blend mode to "mulitply".
eva
there is an even better work-around, that was posted here some time ago:
Make a style for the line-tool with appropriate width and color and set the blend mode to "mulitply".
eva
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Re: HIghlighting not working on scanned pages
Hi Eva,
Yes - thanks for mentioning that. It is certainly a good alternative!
Best,
Stefan
Yes - thanks for mentioning that. It is certainly a good alternative!
Best,
Stefan