Delete text in a scanner apps PDF
Remove words, lines or a whole paragraph and close the gap they leave behind. This works on the PDF scanner apps exported, so you do not need the original file.
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How to do it
- 1.Open the PDF exported from scanner apps in MythosPDF.
- 2.Select the words to remove and press Delete.
- 3.Press Enter to save the line, then Export PDF.
How scanner apps writes PDFs
- • Scans are images of the page, sometimes with a hidden text layer from OCR.
- • The visible text is pixels, not letters.
What that means when you delete text
- • Scanned pages are pictures of text. Use OCR PDF to make them searchable; typing into a scan is a separate, image based process.
What happens to the rest of the page
- • The text is truly removed from the file, not covered with a white box.
- • Deleting a paragraph pulls the content below it up by the space it used.
Questions people ask
+Is deleted text really gone?
Yes. The characters are removed from the page, so they cannot be copied or searched afterwards.
+Is it better to edit in scanner apps?
If you have the original scanner apps file and a lot to change, yes. For quick changes to the PDF itself, editing the PDF is faster and keeps it exactly as sent.
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