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How to Make a PDF Editable in Three Ways

Have you recently created a PDF file or received one with the strong Password? Do you want to make a scanned PDF editable? Normally, you cannot make changes to such type of the PDF file. Are you looking for different ways to make these PDF files editable? In order to make the PDF editable, you will either have to remove the password from the PDF or will have to use the OCR feature to convert image to text. This guide will help you on how you can make PDF editable on Windows or Mac OS X.

Part 1The Program to Make PDF Files Editable

Wondershare PDFelement is a professional level program with the user-interface of the basic PDF editor. It is your all-in-one solution to create, edit, modify and convert the PDF files on Windows and Mac OS X. The unique feature in PDFelement will let you perform the OCR on the scanned PDF file. OCR or Optical Character Recognition will recognize all the text, numbers or characters in the scanned image and you can edit the text in any possible way. Moreover, you can also convert these PDF files with the OCR feature to the word to edit them.

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Apart from editing the scanned PDF documents, there is a hidden feature which will remove the metadata from the PDF file and will lift off all the restrictions from the PDF file. By doing that, you will be able to edit, print or even change the name of the Author of the PDF file. You can also convert the scanned PDF to plenty of other famous formats such as Word, PowerPoint, HTML, or Microsoft Excel.

  • Easily convert PDF files to Editable document.
  • OCR feature to edit scanned documents
  • Convert multiple Files at the same time
  • Edit the text or image in any possible way
  • Crop the Images right from the program

Part 2Steps for Making PDF Editable through Different Methods

Way 1: Make Scanned PDF Editable

Step 1. Perform OCR to Scanned PDF

Launch Wondershare PDFelement and load the scanned PDF file in the program. Once the file is opened, the program will detect that it is a scanned PDF immediately, so you will see a yellow bar on top of your PDF file. Click on the "Perform OCR" button on this bar.

In the next step, select the language of your document and you can also select the customization of the PDF page in this step. Click on the "OK"to complete the OCR process.

Step 2. Edit PDF after Performing OCR

Once you have performed the OCR on the PDF file, the program will create a new file and you will be able to edit the PDF file. Click on the "Edit" tab on Windows or "Edit" button on Mac OS X and select the"Edit Text" or "Edit Image" option to edit the text or images in the PDF file.

Way 2: Make Password-Protected PDF Editable

Step 1. Remove Password of PDF

Wondershare PDF Password Remover is the perfect tool to remove any kind of passwords from your PDF file. Launch it on your computer and Click on “Add Files” button to import the files in the program. On the next screen, enter the password of the PDF file and click on "OK". Click on the "Start"to begin to remove the password from the PDF file. It may a take a few seconds depending upon the number of PDF files.

Step 2: Edit PDF after Cracking Password

After removing the password, open the PDF file in Wondershare PDFelement to make changes in the file. Click on the "Edit" button and then click on "Edit Text". Now, click on any text present in the PDF file and you can easily make changes to the text.

In order to edit images, hit the "Edit Object" and double click on the image that you want to edit. Now, you can resize, crop, edit or extract the images from the PDF file using the same program.

Way 3: Create and Make an Editable PDF

Step 1: Create PDF File

Apart from editing the already present PDF files, you can also create and Edit the PDF files on Wondershare PDFelement. First of all, you will have to create a PDF file; you can either create a PDF file from blank page. Click on the "File"Button at the Top bar and select "New" and"Blank"

Or you can create PDF from other formats such as Images, Word, PowerPoint, Excel or HTML. Click on the "File" > "From File", here you will find all options to create the PDF file.

Step 2:Edit PDF File

Once the PDF file is created, you can edit different elements of the file. Click on the "Edit"button and here you can select different options to "Edit text, Objects or even the Links"

Step 3: Save PDF after Editing

After editing the PDF file, click on the "File"> "Save" or "Save As"and choose a name for the PDF file. That’s it! By this way, you can save the editable PDF file on your computer.

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Published: Sep 08,2016 11:17 am / Updated: Sep 27,2016 15:59 pm

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