Highlight is highlighting full line, not words

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November 19, 2022
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I had a .pdf (received from a company) that would only allow me to highlight areas (See attachment 1). I 'printed' the .pdf into a .pdf using the print function. Now it will highlight full lines, but not individual text AND the highlight isn't readable (see attachment 2). Other documents are working just fine.

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Correct answer Pat27216383iob7

I have no problem clicking and dragging using the Highlight tool to select individual letters.

If you double-click a word it will highlight the entire word, of course.

OK, I ran a repair and now it seems to be ok - thanks!

try67

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Export the pages as images (use a high-quality format, like PNG), then create a new PDF file from those images, and run Text Recognition on it.

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Pat27216383iob7Author

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Hmmm... Each page comes across as a seperate document - all 91 pages. However, I took one of the pages and tried to pull it into Acrobat - still an image. I used the Recognize Text Used both the File>Open and Create>from Clipboard options and still an image. Then I tried using the original .pdf and the export to Word but it is just garbage. I tried Recognize Text, but got an error message: This page contains renderable text.

try67

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Follow my instructions. It's good that it's an image, that's what you want. Once you create the new document from those images you'll be able to run Text Recognition on it.

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