I had a recipe that I wanted to share with the family, but the original was a scanned PDF of a rather smudgy page that I didn't want to share.
I was able to convert it text and edit it in Word, then save it as a much cleaner and smaller PDF.
1. Open the original PDF in Acrobat Reader.
2. Select the graphic and copy it to the clipboard.
3. Open Paint and paste the image into Paint.
4. Save it as a PNG and close Paint.
5. Open the new image file with the Snipping Tool.
6. Select the text, right-click and choose Copy Selected Text.
7. Close the Snipping Tool.
8. Open Word or your text editor of choice and paste the text.
9. Edit to remove extra lines and fix line breaks.
9. Save the file in the desired format.
It sounds complicated but only took a couple of minutes. This technique would also work if you wanted to edit the text from one of those social media posts where people have posted a screen shot of text.
If you have Acrobat Pro, you could probably do this directly in that program. There are other tools that would work too but these are what I had on hand.
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