Note- this will only work on an image within a PDF or on an scanned PDF document. With your image editor preferences set, you are ready to edit an image embedded in a PDF. Click the Image Editor button to find a program which can edit images.Edit> Preferences (Acrobat> Preferences on the Mac).To view or change your image editor preferences: If you install an image editor after installing Acrobat, you will need to tell Acrobat where to find it. The install process will select Adobe tools- Photoshop for image editing or Illustrator for vector editing- as the defaults, but you may also use tools like MS Paint. When you first install Acrobat, the installer program searches for compatible editing programs on your Mac or PC. However, Acrobat can also call a program to edit vector content, too. Using an external image editor makes the most sense for image-based PDFs. I’ve never written about the second option previously, so this seems like a good opportunity to do so! Use the Edit Image option and an external editor to clean up the PDF.Use the Redaction tools (Acrobat Pro only) and redact using the “No Color” option.There are two ways you can clean up content in a PDF:

Also, the file size seems to go way up after I edit the document with Paperport. I prefer to use Adobe Acrobat to OCR, and otherwise manage PDF documents, but if they need editing I am forced to use ScanSoft Paperport. However, it would be useful to have all the features in one program. If used with extreme zoom, I can remove just about any marks on the page so it looks like new. It is very useful to remove stray marks on scanned images, staple marks, fax headers, punched hole marks, etc. I recently received this email from one of my blog readers:ĭoes Adobe Acrobat have a feature similar to the eraser in the old MS Paint program to edit pdf documents? The feature does exist in ScanSoft Paperport (I have version 11). How to Erase and Clean-up a Scanned PDF in Acrobat XI

Adobe acrobat 11 pro drawing tool