Search and highlight funky

Question

I printed to PDF from a webpage. The file saves correctly and is shown correctly on the monitor. I search for a word that I see in the document but it is not found. I do a text recognition and it states the file contains renderable text.

I cannot highlight an individual word or line. Instead it, the highlight, covers a huge chunk of the page.

Click inside the file and a blinking cursor shows up covering approximately 1/3 of the length of the page.

There is no security on the file.

Any thoughts appreciated.

gary_sc · Answer

Hi TapperlsTicked,

If you Printed to PDF on your computer, you were using your computer's PDF generator, not Adobe Acrobat's generator (If you have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Pro there is also an option to "Save as Adobe PDF").

If the whole page turns blue, that let's you know that no recognision of the text on the page was done, like taking a photo or scan of a page. I do not know why that happened. Oh, one thought, if the pages in question were scanned by someone and posted as is without any attempt to make the text searchable, that could cause what you're seeing. In the original web page, can you select text there?

Meanwhile, I have found the website "Print Friendly" to provide THE BEST converstion of web pages I have found. Assuming that the web page is an actual web page, as opposed to what I suspect above, you will get your best results there. Do a Google search for Print Friendly and follow the instructions to install it on your computer.

Hope something here is of help to you.

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