Highlighting sections and not text

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April 12, 2024
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The highlighting tool is highlighting a section of text within the entire page, rather than just a phrase within a sentence. How do I fix this? I have tried saving the PDF as another PDF/print to PDF and this is still happening. see screen snippet:

Thanks in advance for your help

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try67

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You'll need to re-create the file, as that one has an incorrect structure.

To do so export all pages to a high-resolution image format (such as PNG), then create a new PDF file from those images and run Text Recognition on it.

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Rebekah36683505l0bxAuthor

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Thanks for your suggestion. I followed that process - seems counterproductive to what I believed Adobe Pro could achieve. I have previously used Foxit and that had no issues with printing web pages to PDF and highlighting. For now, I will have to stick with screen snips and highlighting that way for quick notes 😞

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Rebekah36683505l0bxAuthor

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downloaded a free trial of Foxit and this is what I was able to do with the same webpage without issue. I am disappointed that Adobe can't do this. I used to think it was the best tool for PDF files - hence why I have had a personal licence for years. My previous employer introduced me to Foxit.

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