Selectable Scanned Tables

Selectable Scanned Tables in Adobe Acrobat — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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A scanned grant attachment must be selectable for reviewers who quote methods, and I am not sure the OCR will be reliable across tables.

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We received a scanned methods appendix that reviewers want to quote precisely, but the scan has…
We received a scanned methods appendix that reviewers want to quote precisely, but the scan has dense tables and small font. I have one afternoon to make the text selectable and reliable. Decide whether to run OCR across the whole document or to re-enter tables manually, recommend the quickest approach that preserves accuracy in tables, and give the short note I should append explaining any OCR limits to reviewers.

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