Edit a Microsoft Lens scan with bold or heading text
What happens when you edit a Microsoft Lens scan with bold or heading text.
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How to do it
- 1.Drop your scanned PDF into MythosPDF. The words on each page become clickable boxes.
- 2.Click the first word, Shift+click to extend along the line, then double click or press Enter and type the new text.
- 3.Press Enter to apply the change, then Export PDF.
Bold or heading text
- • Stroke weight is fitted from the line, so bold print stays bold.
- • Size is measured from the letters, so headings keep their size.
How Microsoft Lens scans
- • Lens has document, whiteboard and business card modes; document mode gives the cleanest pages to edit.
- • Phone scanners photograph the page, straighten and crop it, and save the image into a PDF.
- • Photos carry perspective, uneven light and JPEG compression, and some apps add a hidden OCR text layer.
- • Camera foreshortening is fitted as a horizontal scale on each line, and the paper grain around the word is kept, so the new word sits in the photo like the old one.
Questions people ask
+What if a word cannot be changed invisibly?
You get the exact reason, such as a stamp in the way or a font that could not be identified, instead of a smudged page.
+Do I need to convert the scan to Word first?
No. MythosPDF edits the scanned page itself. There is no conversion, so the page keeps its look.
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