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Cleaning up Scanned Images

By Rick Borstein

PDF redaction,pdf clean-up

I recently received this message from a legal technology consultant:

I have had several clients (and have wondered myself) why there’s no way to delete something from a PDF. For example, if I scan a document and want to delete the black marks made by the staple holes in the top left corner, I can’t do that without cropping the entire image.  What is the reasoning for not including a feature that would allow me to draw a box around those staple holes and delete them from the image? 

Actually, Adobe did include a feature to clean up scanned images!

You can easily clean up scanned images using the Redaction tool:

Normally, redactions appear as a black box which obscures the underlying document. Did you know that Acrobat can redact to "No Color" as well?

In this article, I'll offer step-by-step instructions for cleaning up scanned PDFs using the Redaction tool in Acrobat 8 Professional.

Using this workflow, you can easily delete staple marks, hole punches, shadows, dirt and more from PDFs.

Read on to learn how…

Full post as published by Acrobat for Legal Professionals on December 10, 2007 (boomark / email).