Make Text Selectable

Make Text Selectable in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 2 real situations lead here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Proof a scanned grant attachment and make the text selectable so reviewers can quote methods precisely.Scan a printed test plan and make its text selectable so I can copy examples and update the plan.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Make the scanned grant attachment selectable: run OCR on the scanned methods attachment, correct…
Make the scanned grant attachment selectable: run OCR on the scanned methods attachment, correct obvious recognition errors, and save a searchable, editable PDF so reviewers can quote methods precisely.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I hand the grant attachment to reviewers, reduce quoting errors: run OCR, correct commonly…
Before I hand the grant attachment to reviewers, reduce quoting errors: run OCR, correct commonly misread technical terms and units, embed the original scanned image behind the text layer for verification, and deliver a searchable PDF with a short errata note of fixes I made.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

People Operations ManagerTechnical WriterAdobe Acrobat ProABBYY FineReaderalso: Proof Scanned Attachmentalso: Perform OCR For Quotingalso: Scan Test Plan To Searchable PDFalso: OCR Printed Test Plan

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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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