How to use highlight tool when you don't want to select text?

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The highlighter tool switches to a text selection I-beam when it thinks there is OCR'd text. I've tried to get rid of the OCR text ghost via "Protect PDF" and hiding/removing data and that is totally ineffective. Also, saving as with both optimized and reduced size does not make a difference.

Randy Hagan · Answer

I’m afraid that you may be out of luck. The highlighter tool, by Acrobat definition, is designed to mark up text.

It’s not designed as a drawing tool. But Acrobat does have drawing tools. You can learn more about those through this article link:

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/draw-on-a-pdf.html

Hope this helps with what you need,

Randy

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