Can't select text anymore

[Malzone]

Hi I use the select tool but the tool no longer selects text, it just makes a large blue block of space.

This has only recently started happening and it's happening with all pdfs.

Yes I have the select tool ticked.

[Just Shoot Me]

I moved your post to a better forum.

[try67]

It's possible there is no text to select in the file, just an image. Can you share a sample file with us?

[Malzone]

sure thank you, here is the link https://www.dropbox.com/s/odkaez2twev8soj/reports.pdf?dl=0

[try67]

There is some text in this file but it's all garbled. You can try to fix it by exporting the pages as image files (File - Save As Other - Image) then creating a new PDF file from those images and running Text Recognition on it.

[Malzone]

Thank you for the information.  These documents have never done this previously, but suddenly started (same provider I download for work through). Do you think I should contact the provider about it, as in is it their end or mine?

[try67]

Assuming you're only downloading the files from them and not processing them in any way, then yes, it's caused on their end.