Scanned document cleanup problem

[RNFolsom]

I use an EpsonV33 scanner, and today I scanned a magazine article that started on a page that had some other content, and that ended on a second page that also had some other content. I want to delete the extraneous material from each page, to end up with only the magazine article, in a PDF file.

I have put the article's first page into PDF-XChange Viewer (I have the paid-for version). It has many tools, such as TextBoxTool, CalloutTool, SnapshotTool, and seven red tools including a RectangleTool that creates a red box that eliminates (or hides) part of the extraneous material, but then I couldn't persuade the RectangleTool's red box to go away.

To learn how to remove the extraneous material (in other words, how to save only the magazine article's content), I opened the PDF-XChange Viewer Manual (version 2001-2011, which I think is the latest). It has much information, but it also has a lot of technical terms --- such as Callout --- that are unknown to me.

After six hours of effort (that's not an exaggeration) I was unable to find any way to get a PDF file that included only the text of one magazine article.

Instead, I somehow ended up with two extra pages that are duplicates of the first page that I was working with. And I can find no way to delete those two extra duplicate pages. To deal with that, I will discard the current scanned document, and re-scan the magazine article's two pages.

But I will still need to know how to do either of the following actions:
1) Delete the extraneous material that is not part of the article I am trying to save.
OR
2) Save the content of the article that I want to end up with.

If I need to use PDF-XChange Editor instead of PDF-XChange Viewer, please let me know. (I have a paid-for PDF-XChange Editor.) Before Editor became available, I remember using Viewer to read a PDF document and deleting tangential pages from it, so until now it didn't occur to me that Viewer might not be able to delete part of a PDF document page.

Any comments, suggestions, or help would be very much appreciated.

R.N. (Roger) Folsom
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P.S. Fortunately, I saved the text above into Thornsoft's Clipmate, because when I went to preview it, I got a message that I needed to login. But I had already logged in. If there is a time limit on time spent writing a post, it ought to be announced in a prominent way.

[John - Tracker Supp]

Hi,

The best you can achieve with the viewer is to 'cover up' content on a page - it cannot be removed. To cover up simply add a text box with no coloured border (assuming the background is white) and then use the flatten comments option to ensure the text box cannot be moved.

Otherwise - you will indeed need to use the Editor.

There is no timeout on the forums as far as I am aware.