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How can I change my text in a PDF file to include French accent characters?

I am trying to edit a word in a PDF file to the correct French spelling of the word creme. I need to insert a grave accent on the first "e" in "creme." The grave accent goes from the upper left to the lower right on top of the "e" and can also be found over "a" and "u" in the French language.
I have already tried going through Text Recognition then Recognize Text in this file in order to change the OCR Primary language to French. When I pressed ok for changing the primary language I got a screen that said it couldn't perform recognition because the page contains renderable text. What does that mean? How else can I insert a grave accented "e" into my PDF file?


Laura Rudy


3 Answers

OCR attempts to recognize images of textual characters and provide an output glyph. String these together for words, sentences, paragraphs, etc.

So, this output is "renderable". OCR does not "do" renderable text - just the image of text. You have a text not an image of text (such as from an output image of a scanner). Acrobat is just letting you know that you've asked it to do what cannot be done.


So, maybe if you change the keyboard mapping from English to French (if the OS supports) then you can use the tool that lets you do minor edits to text to select and change characters to the French character.


n.b., The tool's name and "click path" to get it going varies with the version of Acrobat.


Be well...


David Austin   

David,
I understand the concept you are describing but I'm not sure how to execute it. I have Acrobat Pro (I think it's the X version) and I'm not sure how to change the keyboard mapping. Could you help explain?


Laura Rudy   

David Austin   

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