RedSnapper Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I have used the canon scan facility to scan a document and it savedsit as pdf. I open the pdf in Photo v2. I have rotated clockwise. I have opened the pdf in Publisher but can't change the orientation to landscape and it has created two layers. In each case I can't edit the text. I welcome advice on how I can alter the text. Thank you. photo20240317_141104.mp4 publisher20240317_141231.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 I'm not sure what's going on when you change the spread properties in Publisher. However, for not being able to edit the text: There's no text in that PDF; only an image of the page. You would need to use a tool that will perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) or tell your scanner to do that, if it has that capability. Pyanepsion and Old Bruce 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 8 minutes ago, RedSnapper said: I have opened the pdf in Publisher but can't change the orientation to landscape and it has created two layers. If you Group the four layers in the Layers Panel once you've opened the PDF in Publisher you can then rotate the PDF using the rotate handle for the Group after you've changed the orientation of your Publisher document... As @walt.farrell mentions, there is no editable text, the layers in your scanned PDF file are all Image layers... Your scanner will likely have an OCR feature but to be perfectly honest you'd probably be better off just creating the text yourself from scratch... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Thank you Walt and Hangman for the advice. Hangman and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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