How Do I Remove a Black Stripes Covered Area When Scanning a Document?

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How do I remove a black stripes-covered area when scanning a document?

This is something that has been bugging me for months. Whenever I scan a document, my Erase Pdf Pro basically shrinks the height of the doc so that each page has a black space at the bottom of the page. After reading another forum article I used the redacting in white as the author suggested, and that worked fine. I thought about having to do this for an 800-page doc, like the author was describing, and I figured there must be some way to prevent these black areas, rather than having to correct them. I fiddled with the scanning presets in Erase Pdf Pro and found that if I indicated the page length to be 10.6", as opposed to the default 11", it stretched the doc back out to the normal length. I had another problem, in that my scanner tends to pull the docs through slightly skewed. The result is that the scanned copy has partial black lines on the sides. I looked for a setting to correct this, but don't find one in either Erase Pdf Pro or in my scanner software. I again adjusted the page dimensions in the presets to indicate that the original was only 8.3", instead of the actual 8.5". Now my scanned docs come out nice and white on all the edges - no need to crop or redact!

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