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DSpider · 11-24-2009, 07:42 PM

Hi there ! I'm working on a thesis and I would like to use a good chunk of printed material. Please help me understand why this is happening and how to fix it.

I've used ABBYY FineReader 8 which came with the scanner, corrected all mistakes but the output PDF in Acrobat looks like this:

As you can see, the Italic font is out of line. Could it be because ABBYY saves the PDF as v1.4 ? Or is it because it doesn't properly recognize the characters ? Maybe because it couldn't find a matching font ?

How can I "narrow" it down without sacrificing font size ? Is replacing the font the only option ?

My next issue is with random tables... What's with these ? I only see them using Ctrl+A. They seem to serve no function and the PDF is smaller if manually removed one by one (a real pain in the *ss).

Thank you very much.

PS: Acrobat is a very poor PDF editor. No bolding options, italic, strikethrough, etc. Very expensive for such limited functionality. I wish the scanner was cheaper and didn't include Acrobat... Can you please suggest a "better" PDF editor ? Adobe InDesign ? Wonder how much THAT will cost... Pff.

11-24-2009, 07:42 PM	#1
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	Advice on formatting OCR'd printed to digital material. Hi there ! I'm working on a thesis and I would like to use a good chunk of printed material. Please help me understand why this is happening and how to fix it. I've used ABBYY FineReader 8 which came with the scanner, corrected all mistakes but the output PDF in Acrobat looks like this: As you can see, the Italic font is out of line. Could it be because ABBYY saves the PDF as v1.4 ? Or is it because it doesn't properly recognize the characters ? Maybe because it couldn't find a matching font ? How can I "narrow" it down without sacrificing font size ? Is replacing the font the only option ? My next issue is with random tables... What's with these ? I only see them using Ctrl+A. They seem to serve no function and the PDF is smaller if manually removed one by one (a real pain in the *ss). Thank you very much. PS: Acrobat is a very poor PDF editor. No bolding options, italic, strikethrough, etc. Very expensive for such limited functionality. I wish the scanner was cheaper and didn't include Acrobat... Can you please suggest a "better" PDF editor ? Adobe InDesign ? Wonder how much THAT will cost... Pff.