Skip to main content
A
awheeler1000
Participant
June 9, 2017
Answered

When I OCR a page, I get separate text boxes and I can't copy all of the text at once?

  • June 9, 2017
  • 2 replies
  • 5640 views

In Acrobat Pro X, recognizing text would result in a continuous flow of editable text, which I could continuously select and copy all at once. Now I get separate text boxes - how can I continuously select and copy across text boxes?

This topic has been closed for replies.
Correct answer Lovekesh Garg

There's a solution to this question in the thread I gave a link to above.


To select all text from the page/file, either exit from edit mode or run OCR from Recognize text tool.

Thanks.

2 replies

Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
Lovekesh Garg
Adobe Employee
January 17, 2018

In that case you can use Recognize text tool instead of Edit tool.

T
Community Manager
Tariq AhmadCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 17, 2017

Hi awheeler1000,

This is as design behaviour and it may vary document to document.

You may file an enhancement request via this link: Acrobat for Windows and Mac: New (453 ideas) – Share your feedback on Acrobat DC  and help us with your comments.

-Tariq Dar

J
jurban00
Participating Frequently
December 19, 2017

I have the same problem (Re: Copy all text from multiple text boxes at once ). I used to be able to use OCR text recognition to select all text in a document at once in previous versions of Acrobat Pro. I recently requested Acrobat Pro DC for 3 of our customer service rep's so they could recognize text on scanned purchase orders and copy it into a program to pull out the pertinent data, but if they have to select each text box individually, Acrobat Pro will be nearly useless for this purpose and we're going to have to end the subscription. Is there any way to select all text at once? That'd be pretty disappointing if Adobe removed that feature.

J
jurban00
Participating Frequently
December 19, 2017

There's a solution to this question in the thread I gave a link to above.

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices