Editing

By Cynthia, 11 November, 2025
  • Show changed text in: Select a color the modified text will appear in when using the Edit Text command.

  • Alert when there’s no editable text when using ‘Edit Text’ tool: An alert will pop up notifying the user when there’s no editable text while using the Edit Text command. By default, this option is selected. 

  • Recognize Text: Select this option to run OCR automatically when you use the Edit Text command in a scanned PDF.    

  • Scanned Document Editing Settings: Click it to open a dialog box to specify the OCR settings when recognizing text in a scanned PDF. You can select the language used to recognize text, and the two options:

    • Use available system font: Select this option to convert text in the scanned PDF to editable text using a substitution font available in your system that is similar to that of the original text. This option is selected by default.

    • Make all the pages editable: Select this option to recognize and convert text in all pages of the scanned PDF to editable text at once.  

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Foxit PDF Editor for Windows