1. Summary
I have third-party poor quality scanned PDF's, where start characters of the lines are highlighted.
I have numerous bad scanned PDF's, manually alignment of characters for replacements takes a lot of time for me. I can't find, how I can quickly overwrite/replace/repair bad quality characters.
2. Expected result
- Before:
- After:
3. Example data
It would be nice get expected result for any of these files.
- KiraAristotle.pdf — PDF
- KiraAristotle.jpg — JPEG, into which I converted KiraAristotle.pdf
- KiraAristotleOCR.pdf — KiraAristotle.pdf with OCR
Start characters corrupted:
4. Limits
- I can't re-scan poor quality pages or make photos, because I don't have access to books.
- Please, any free Windows software. Not Photoshop, FineReader or Acrobat.
5. Examples of expected behavior
I have corrupted symbols; I don't think, that possible repair them via features as “Dodge/Burn”.
5.1. Text editors behavior
I remove previous text → I print new text as in any text editor:
5.2. Align by line
I remove corrupt characters in image editor use “Bucket Fill” → I get font and font size, use pdffonts → I set them in image editor settings → I write the text:
→ I press to magic button “Align by line” → text is aligned between imaginary red lines:
I can't find feature similar as “Align by line” in any image editor (see “Image editors” section); I need align text manually, that take a lot of time.
6. Not helped
I can't find expected features in these programs. Also, I tried to use FineReader alternatives as NAPS2 and GImageEditor → no success.
6.1. PDF editors
I searched software here:
- PDF-XChange Editor
LibreOffice Draw — I found, how I can edit OCR layer, not original PDF:
PDFEdit — text editing doesn't work for me:
Icecream PDF Editor
6.2. Image editors
I searched software here:
- GIMP
- Inkscape
- Paint.NET
- Krita