hey guys
thank you all for your comments so far. i would like to provide you with some more info:
the usual path for the PDF to be edited in affinity is: using my scanner (hp photosmart plus) to produce a PDF, opening that PDF in affinity, edit. BUT: i already found that the direct scan from my scanner leads to affinity prompting "the file type is not supported" (it definitely is a PDF...), so i added a step: loading the scanned PDF in pdf24 (that free PDF tool), saving as PDF again, and using this one to open in affinity (funnily enough, it works then). technically, it just changes the property "producer". by now, i already tried the PDF-output from pdf24, as well as affinity itself, but nothing worked out.
the PDF definitely contains text, BUT of course i cannot highlight any of it, since it is a scan. that's the actual reason why i want to use the affinity's OCR, to recognize it, and make it editable (like i already did with several documents in the past).
I attached two documents for you guys to examine. both of them won't lead to affinity making it text-editable.
the first one opens, the PDF dialogue shows up, i press ok, and then he gives me (groups of) images again (instead of text recognition).
the second one doesn't even open, affinity prompts "the file type is not supported".
thanks a lot in advance for any of your efforts. perhaps i'm lucky and somebody finds the key to this problem...
chris
Schufa-Auskunft.pdf
5193268_Erklärung Eigenständigkeit.pdf