Edit scans

Premium subscribers can now edit or add text in scans using the Scan app’s Edit text feature on the home screen.

Here’s how to edit your scan:

1. Open your Adobe Scan app. In the Home screen, you get an option to Edit text next to every document displayed. Tap for the scanned file you want to edit.

You can also open the document preview and select Edit text from the bottom toolbar.

Once you select Edit text, Adobe Scan starts preparing your document to be editable. You need to wait untill your document becomes editable. Do not select Cancel.

2. Select the desired location for editing, and a set of options will appear for you:

• Edit: Edit allows you to modify the text as desired. Select Edit text to start editing.

  Once done tap in the upper right to save your work.

• Select: Selects the text to cut, copy, or delete.

• Copy: Copy text from a chosen area on the page, then paste it wherever you want in your document. Hold down to pick where you want to paste the copied text.

• Delete: You can delete the text in the selected bounding box.

The options in the toolbar at the bottom can help you perform the following actions:

• : Gives you options to align the text as desired.

• : Makes the text italics.

• : Underlines the text.

• : Makes the text bold.

• : Helps you change the colour of the text.

• : Gives you option to change the text size.

• : Gives you option to add text anywhere in the document.

• : Gives you option to change the font style of the text.

Edit scans using the contextual menu

You can now edit your scans using the contextual menu. Open your Adobe Scan document, long press the area where you want to make the edits, a contextual menu opens. Select Edit from the contextual menu to begin editing.

Edit scans from quick save screen

You can now access the edit feature from the quick save screen in Adobe Scan app.

1. Open the Adobe Scan app. From the home screen, tap in the lower-right.

2. Scan the document as required. In the quick save screen, you get the Edit text option in the bottom toolbar.

3. Tap Edit text. You get a dialog box asking you to save the current scan to begin editing text.

4. Tap Continue. The pages in the scan are saved as a file and the text becomes editable.

5. You can now use the tools in the bottom toolbar to edit the scanned document as required. You can also tap the area where you want to make the edits and use the contextual menu to edit text.

Supported Languages for Edit in Scan

You can now Edit in Scan in 19 languages. Initially, Adobe Scan could edit and scan in six languages (English, German, French, Italian, Brazilian, and Spanish). The update introduces compatibility with an additional thirteen languages:

1. Chinese-CM

2. Chinese-HK

3. Czech

4. Danish

5. Dutch

6. Finnish

7. Japanese

8. Korean

9. Norwegian

10. Polish

11. Russian

12. Swedish

13. Turkish

This expansion allows users to download language packs on demand, facilitating editing functionality in these languages. You are prompted to download the language pack for the language selected in Preference.

Saving your work

Once you are done making changes to your document, select in the upper right. The save confirmation dialog prompts you to save a copy of your document so that the original document remains intact and you can modify it if you choose to.

Once you select Save a copy, the copied file appears in the file list with a suffix _edited appended to the filename.

If you select in the upper left, you get options to discard the changes or cancel and continue editing. If you select Discard, the changes made within the Edit session will be deleted. If you select Cancel, you will remain in the Edit session.

Note

If you’re not an Adobe Scan Premium or Acrobat Pro subscriber, you’ll be prompted to subscribe when trying to use ‘Edit text’.