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Imbriani

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Hi all,

I have a document scanned in and pulled up in Acrobat 5.0. For some reason I can't select any text. Any ideas why??

Kathy
 
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I think you may find that it is a picture of a page of text, not actually real text.
to convert it to real text you need to use an OCR (optical charactor recognition) program like OmniPage Pro.

Marcus
 
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Thanks! I'll try and find a copy.
 
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