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How to highlight text, not area ?

New Here ,
Jun 07, 2018 Jun 07, 2018

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Has something change in PDF documents or in Adobe Pro, obviously Adope Acrobat Pro  does not recognize letters...just areas when trying to highlight or underline text in documents ?  

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Community Expert , Jun 07, 2018 Jun 07, 2018

That means your file doesn't contain actual text, just an image with text in it. You'll need to run Text Recognition on it first to be able to highlight individual words.

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That means your file doesn't contain actual text, just an image with text in it. You'll need to run Text Recognition on it first to be able to highlight individual words.

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New Here ,
Jul 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022

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Hi there, 

I have tried test recognition and it's still not working, I just get these random shapes??

 

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Aug 19, 2022 Aug 19, 2022

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I am having the same problem. In the past, if the text was not recognized, the cursor would turn into a little circle and I could still add highlights. I use this tool a lot, and now it is almost useless -- almost all attempts to highlights result in a giant blob. This started maybe a few weeks ago, and here I am searching the help -- to no avail.

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