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Enable PDF text edits for text embedded in a screenshot


Consider you have to complete a UI content review for the product you work on. Wouldn’t things be easier if you could use Acrobat text-edit-markup features to highlight the relevant content embedded in images? Of course, you can always add a sticky note in an approximate location, but that isn’t quite as effective!

So how do you enable PDF text edits for embedded text? Here’s how:
  1. Paste the screenshot in your favorite word-processing or layout tool. For example, FrameMaker.
  2. Generate a PDF of the page containing the screenshot.
  3. Open the PDF in Acrobat 9 and select Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR.
  4. Once the text recognition process is over, you’ll be able to select the embedded text and use the Acrobat text edit tools on it.

Enable PDF text edits for text embedded in a screenshot

This Help topic discusses Acrobat text edit features in greater detail. For more information about the OCR features in Acrobat, refer to this Help topic.

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  1. #1 by Michael Müller-Hillebrand on December 26, 2010 - 11:49 pm

    That sounds very interesting and is an example for a cool combination of available options! What would happen with those comments if imported into FrameMaker?

    • #2 by Samartha Vashishtha on January 1, 2011 - 2:38 am

      I am glad you found the blog post useful, Michael. As for your query, I think the comments would be imported in approximate locations in FrameMaker instead of being imported within the image.

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