13. The apparatus of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer to create the synthesized digital font by: extracting the original set of characters from the scanned document; extracting a monochrome pixmap for each extracted original character; merging similar monochrome pixmaps that are determined to most close match a same system font; and creating a vector outline for each character in the set of original characters.
12. An apparatus for enabling text editing in scanned documents while maintaining fidelity of appearance of the text comprising: a computer having one or more processors; and a non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer to: for each original character in a set of original characters present in a scanned document, determine a system font, from a plurality of system fonts, corresponding to the original character; create a synthesized digital font comprising a plurality of synthesized characters corresponding to the set of original characters present in the scanned document; create an editable document from the scanned document by replacing the set of original characters in the scanned document with corresponding synthesized characters from the plurality of synthesized characters of the synthesized digital font; detect user input of a new character at a location in the scanned document; identifying a first system font corresponding to a neighboring character of the location of the new character, wherein the first system font is one of the plurality of system fonts and the neighboring character is one of the original characters from set of original characters; and add a synthesized character from the plurality of synthesized characters of the synthesized digital font to the editable document based on the new character, the first system font, and the location.