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Audio recording for this meeting has begun hello and welcome ladies and gentlemen my name is David Wilmer and today we're gonna be looking at the enhanced scans tool in Adobe Acrobat PDF I grab Pro DC rather so what we're gonna do is we're gonna click on the enhance scans tool and it prompts us to let select a file or scan a document to begin so we're gonna select our file and I have a particular file in mind you've seen it before it's a picture it's an image of a form it's on a piece of paper so how can we get this this paper document how can we get this intact but how can we digitize this and this is exactly how we're going to do it we're gonna click start and then there's a two-step process so now look up here on the upper left technically this image is now a PDF but there's really nothing we can do with this this is what I like to call it dumb PDF we can't select text we can't add text this is for all intents purposes still an image so the way we there's a two-step process to giving this to be legible essentially but before that we're gonna check out the insert option so the insert just like with the organized pages tool it allows us to add in an additional image to the document so we're just gonna have the same document again same image just after it just to show this to show off that we can add it once again but now let's get you actually enhancing the text of this so we're gonna click on this little drop down here for advanced enhance and there's a camera image taking with a smartphone so we're gonna click camera image and so then these blue circles are gonna appear in the four corners what Acrobat thinks the document is now this is for when the image contains more than just the document you want so for instance if the document were skew like lying on a table like away from us kind of like this we could adjust what we want a crotchet pick up but acrobat was pretty smart in this case it picked up the document that's all we want really so we put those circles back and then we click enhance page mmm-hmm published do it for the second paid as well okay so we have our we have the enhanced camera image option it basically gets rid of all the errant lighting in the document and so it gets rid of all that bad lighting and makes it look more like a Word document you know more like something we would process unfortunately we still have one more task left to do before we can really use this document and integrate it into our workflows which is recognize text so we just click this will drop down ...