Highlight is highlighting full line, not words

[Pat27216383iob7]

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.

attachment 1:

attachment 2:

[try67]

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.

[Pat27216383iob7]

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]

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.

[Pat27216383iob7]

OK, I am still doing something wrong. I ran Text Recognition using Editable Text and Images as the setting. Now I can highlight 1 word at a time. It is, however, recognising the word instead of jibberish.

[Pat27216383iob7]

Hi, Once I had the .pdf where I could highlight one word at a time, I exported that to Word, That worked and Word recognises the text. So, I took it BACK to acrobat but, again, it is highlighting only one word at a time.

[try67]

How are you adding the highlights, exactly? Can you share the file in question?

[Pat27216383iob7]

Attached is Word version and this link goes to online version... https://er.educause.edu/articles/2022/10/top-10-it-issues-2023-foundation-models 

[try67]

Share the PDF file, please. And you didn't answer my first question.

[Pat27216383iob7]

I use the select tool to try to highlight the text. If I drag over words, I get nothing. If I double-click a word it highlights. 

OK - I just openned another file that I have successfully highlighted in the past, and now I get the same problem - one word at a time. But I can still see the highlighted text from last time.

[try67]

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.

[Pat27216383iob7 · Accepted solution]

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

[AlexColvin]

Running "Repair" does not fix this issue for me.  Running Adobe Acrobat Pro v. 2023 on Win. 11