I need to copy both image and text at the same time

[rookiebatman]

I have a pdf with a bunch of images that have text inset, and I need to extract the images while keeping the text in its proper position. It would take too long to explain exactly what it is, but just think of it like a comic strip. The drawings and the word balloons are treated as an image, but the words inside the word balloons are treated as text; you can't select them both at the same time.

I know that I can do Snapshot to get both image and text, but it doesn't intelligently find the edge of the image like it does when you're just selecting the image by itself, and it doesn't paste in the image's native size (this part is less important, but the edge-finding is very important). Is there a way to preserve those functions (to save me from additional image-editing steps for each of the many images in the pdf) while still copying over the text as well? It would save me a ton of time if I could just do that all in a single step (there's over 300 images).

[try67]

Get Acrobat and you'll be able to export the entire document to another format (like Word) in a single operation. Reader is much more limited.

[rookiebatman]

I have "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC." It gives you the option to Export to Word, but then takes you to a payment page if you select that. I'm not ready to pay money for that, because I don't even know that exporting to Word would help me (and it doesn't have the option to export to individual images).

[try67]

Yes, that is the free version. To be able to export to other formats you need to pay.

[rookiebatman]

Right, but I don't see the reason to pay, because I don't think exporting to Word will help me solve this problem.

[jane-e]

Hi Rookie,

You can get a 7-day free trial of Acrobat. Be sure to cancel within the seven days. Try67 is offering the only solution that I am aware of. You can export to Word or export all of the images or save any individual image.

~ Jane

[Arun356899685zdp]

I am a licensed user but still unable to select both Text and Image.  pls help us

[try67]

Use the Text Selection tool and hold down Ctrl. Draw a rectangle over the area you want to copy (it will appear with a light blue highlighting), then press Ctrl+C. It will copy all the elements you selected and you'll be able to paste them into another application.

[Jay Maechtlen]

Depends on what other tools you have,.

Actually, recent versions of Word will open PDFs (!!!) and let you do stuff.

Or, the paid version of Acrobat lets you select text and graphics for editing externally - but it seems to only work with Adobe Illustrator.

If you have Illustrator, you can open one or several pages of a PDF and edit as you please...

All of the above tools have their place and abundant shortcomings.

Your choices largely depend on how much work you have to do and what you think your time is worth.