Working with an imported PDF...

[MeTheMachine]

I have imported a PDF into Vectorworks that contains lots of notes and information I do not need and would like to clean up.  The PDF in question, has no vector information, therefore I can not ungroup and erase the text.  Is there anything I can do, inside or outside of Vectorworks to make this PDF easier to work with?  I have tried to OCR the document, but that really didn't seem to help. 

 

Any suggestions? 

 

I do have Illustrator, but not very familiar with it.  I was told that could help.

 

Thank you. 

[PVA - Admin]

Right click on the PDF and choose "Edit Crop" and you can then crop out the portions you don't need. You need to use one piece of geometry to do this, but it can be pretty much any shape you like.

[MeTheMachine]

In this instance, there is a lot of text within the crop.  At this point, the easiest thing to do is call and get a DWG file sent to me. 

 

Thanks for the help, regardless. 

 

It would be nice to have multiple crops. Crop out all the perimeter info, save, then go back in and crop out all the text inside the building. Is that possible?  I tried, but said only one crop object could exist. Is there a work around or something I'm doing wrong? 

 

 

[rDesign]

Using Bluebeam, you may be able to edit the PDF and delete the text prior to importing in into Vw.

 

 

Edited July 18, 2017 by rDesign