OCR Exact is doing weird cut and paste to original PDF image

Question

Using Acrobat 7, I am scanning old typewritten documents, most on legal sized paper.  When I run “OCR exact” on them to create searchable text (hidden text) behind the original image, the original image (on top of the hidden text) changes.  Specifically, Acrobat takes part of the original PDF image and copies it at the bottom of the original PDF image.  When I have the document displayed in full screen, I can sit there and watch the image change at the bottom when the OCR completes running.  It always changes the bottom of the PDF by taking a small snapshot of part of the PDF from somewhere else in the PDF and repeating it at the bottom.  I have seen it take a chunk from the top of the document and repeat it at the bottom, and I have seen it take a chunk of the document from the middle and repeat it at the bottom.  The “repeated part” will sometimes start at the very end (not covering original text), and sometimes start an inch or two from the end (thus covering some original text).  It only seems to happen on documents that were typewritten.  Scans of documents created after the invention of word processors don’t end up having the problem I am describing.
Anyone know what is happening and how to correct it?  Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi stpippin,
I am not sure what you are trying to do. Numbers works best with several small tables, each with a purpose. Rather than copying formulas to another part of a table, you can create another table with a new purpose.
Table 1 contains values (typed in, pasted in, or calculated from elsewhere):
Fruit
Value
Apple
99
Banana
98
Cherry
97
Date
96
Eugenia
95
Fig
94
Grape
93
Table 2
Fruit
Value
Apple
99
Banana
98
Cherry
97
Date
96
Eugenia
95
Fig
94
Grape
93
A2 contains this formula (and Fill Down and Right)
=Table 1::A2
Select cells A2 to B8 and copy. Then paste into Table 3:
Fruit
Value
Apple
99
Banana
98
Cherry
97
Date
96
Eugenia
95
Fig
94
Grape
93
Formula in Table 3::A2 becomes
=Table 1::A2
Now you have another table that duplicates Table 2. What do you want to do with it?
Regards,
Ian.