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*If your family's entry is not dependent on other information in the document, you might consider simply cropping your information out.
*If your family's entry is not dependent on other information in the document, you might consider simply cropping your information out.


== Merging image with additional information ==
== Merging image with additional information ==


=== Plan A -- Add information to face of image ===
Additional information might be added to the face of the image. There are two ways to accomplish this:
 
* Plan A -- Add information to the face of document image using a photo editor.
* Plan B -- Combine the image with added information in word processing software and then publish the finished image and text as a PDF (Portable Document Format) document. FamilySearch accepts PDF files as documents.
 
=== Plan A -- Add information to face of image ===


==== Consider adding explanatory text to the scan  ====
==== Consider adding explanatory text to the scan  ====
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