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Paint is the best I've found until now. I need the ability to add a background to text and also control padding. Paint would be perfect if it didn't squeeze text to the left and made equal padding from top and bottom.

I know I could add some spaces in front and to edit height of the container, but I'm planning to do editing for hundreds of pages and it's impractical to tweak the box size for every piece of text

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This text tool option is merely for highlighting single words or sentences within a block of running text. To create a text box with a colored background, you need to draw a box and place the text above it (e.g. using layers) or, if available, use a text frame tool... -- Please explain what you are trying to edit/create – any reasonable software recommendation depends on that. (You can edit your question.) – TehMacDawg Dec 1 '12 at 19:29
@TehMacDawg I have scanned pages of text which include hand written parts. Single words as well as sentences. They are poorly visible, so I want to replace that hand written text with "digital" text and background. Of course it's possible with layers, but it would take too much time – Tomas Dec 1 '12 at 19:46

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