CONVERT WEBPAGE TO PDF - TEXT RECOGNITION VERY POOR - HIGHLIGHTING

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The Convert Webpage to PDF, and Add Webpage PDF functions were completely destroyed by Adobe about 9 months ago. I requested fixes a couple of times and eventually Adobe restored these to much better functionality about a month ago. I responded that the functions were now good.

BUT I have since found that once the PDF is created from a webpage, there is no text recognition within the PDF. When I try to use the OCR recognition function, it responds "could not perform recognition because this page contains renderable text".

The consequence of this is that highlighting of individual words is IMPOSSIBLE. It just wants to highlight a huge square.

Once again, Microsoft Print to PDF and much better at all this than Adobe Acrobat Pro -which is charging a lot and increasing its price.

creative explorer · Answer

@Irene321317216r5c to follow-up with the previous post: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/adobe-acrobat-price-increase-is-unjustified/m-p/15473414#M517493

Thanks this helps to understand the issues. So essentially when the webpage is turned into a PDF, the text isn't saved as actual letters and words. Instead, it's saved as a flat image, like a picture of the text. You can see the words, but you can't highlight or copy them. That's why the text recognition tool sees a big box of letters instead of individual words? Correct?

You can try this, and it's going to sound weird, but try the "Print to PDF" feature in a different browser , so if you are using Chrome (try Firefox or Microsoft Edge) may handle the conversion better than Acrobat. Save the file. This often results in a PDF with selectable text, bypassing the Acrobat bug.

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