How do I stop the highlight tool from making boxes and creating comments?

[Mike34987496f9nn]

I want to highlight the old way and I can’t anymore.  I want to highlight text that has been OCR’ed from a scanned document or other documents containing text.  At one point I was able to do this with some but not all documents.  Now I can’t highlight text the right way, even with documents I had been able to highlight before.

The problem is that when I use the highlight tool, it puts boxes around the highlighted text and makes it into a comment.  All I want is to highlight.  I already know how to make the ‘hate’ example have more opacity.  For example:

Others have posted about this:

adobe acrobat dc highlight text option not making ... - Adobe Community - 13102524

Highlight tool is inconsistent - Adobe Community - 9501847

If we can’t fix it now, will going back to an older version of Adobe work?  

[Amal.]

Hi @Mike34987496f9nn

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

The highlight text tool can only highlight "real" text. If you have a scanned document or a document in which text was converted to outlines, you cannot use this tool.

Please check the correct answer marked in the similar discussion (https://adobe.ly/3OepWXH) and see if that works for you.

Note: Steps are same for the new version.

If it still doesn't work, please remove the application using the Acrobat cleaner tool https://adobe.ly/4b8sH6y, reboot the computer and reinstall the application using the direct link https://adobe.ly/3SwIUeO;

Regards

Amal

[Mike34987496f9nn]

This didn't work.  Should I roll back to X or something?

[Ayushi38561800qldm]

Did you find out a solution ?

[Mike34987496f9nn]

No, I didn't find a solution.  I have been saving to Word and working from there.  When that looks too ugly I do it on paper and scan it. 

[Bernd Alheit]

In Acrobat highlights are comments.

[Aisha28677178twd1]

to avoid comment boxes while highlighting, is to open the document after all the highlighting is done in microsoft edge and saving it again gets rid of the comment box.