[PDF don't open as text-editable PDF anymore, only as image]

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

[PDF don't open as text-editable PDF anymore, only as image]

hey guys

i just came across a brand new problem with affinity photo on my windows 10 laptop: when opening PDF, he opens as image, and not as text-editable PDF (artboard) anymore.

i worked with this function in plenty of my documents before, so i'm quite irritated by that. i already tried reboots, re installations, even converted the PDF around in different tools. nothing helped by now. at one point i thought it might be because he recognizes all fonts (no need to replace anything, maybe bug-like), or that it is a one-page document instead of multiple pages. but by now it showed to be no difference with the result.

can anybody relate to this issue, and/or help out? i'd appreciate a lot.

thanks, chris

[cr3]

hey all

i am new to this forum, using affinity since june this year, presently in its newest version (1.8.5.703).

now i too came across this CR3 RAW file problem, since i had a photo shoot yesterday, and received all the files in CR3 format. i am not able to see, neither open those files.

by now, i tried windows raw file extension, but doesn't work.

i know, i am not the only one who asked that - but is there any news on this? is this "libraw" extension something to use?

i am a little sad now, bc i cannot work on my files, although i definitely need to...

thank you for any reaction, chris