Non-Selectable Printed Text

Non-Selectable Printed Text in Adobe Acrobat — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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a printed test plan sits on my desk and I need selectable text to copy examples tonight

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The QA lead left a printed test plan with good examples but no digital copy; I need selectable text…
The QA lead left a printed test plan with good examples but no digital copy; I need selectable text tonight to update our template. I’ve scanned printed docs before and OCR sometimes mangles code snippets and tables. Tell me the scanning and OCR settings I should use to preserve code blocks and tables, and give the quick verification steps to catch common OCR failures before I hand the file to layout.

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