highlighting in scanned document - worked, then didn't

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July 13, 2016
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Hi, folks,

(First time on any forum… 🙂

I have a large scanned document, a Latin dictionary, 400Mb.

I have tried OCR'ing it, but the results are not satisfactory.

So of course text highlighting is not available. To this point I had substituted yellow-framed links pointing to the link itself – it works, but not elegant.

Earlier today, I discovered – to my delight – that the highlight tool gave me true highlighting – as with a highlighter pen – the original brand was HiLiter, I think, maybe?

So I started using that – deleted a few of my yellow-framed links, changed them to HiLiter highlighting.

In that process, more than once as I was dragging the highlighting cursor – a small circle with an arrow pointing into it – each time the highlighting just stopped at some point, and Acrobat had become unusable, unclose-able, etc – it had effectively hung or died.

Then, on one of those occasions, I rebooted Windows (W7). When I came back in and started to do the highlighting again, I discovered – to my dismay, this time – that now the highlighting tool referred to highlighting text, and if I tried to use it, Acrobat would want to OCR the page.

WHAT HAPPENED?

WHAT CAN I DO TO GET THE HiLiter HIGHLIGHTING BACK?

I haven't done anything – not intentionally, at least – to either get that effect, or to lose it – seems that both have just happened.

Help! Please? Thanks!

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ken thu huongc86137616Author

Inspiring

More info...

I have just created several more .pdf files from files scanned to .bmp.

The highlighting tool works as expected – result looking like this – with the highlight-pen-plus-circle cursor!

So: How can I get that cursor (and highlighting) on the other file, the big dictionary file that is also the result of scanning?

I assume that there is a setting somewhere that I'm not aware of? I've looked diligently through Edit / Preferences, trying to find something different between the new .pdf files where highlighting works, and the old where it doesn't work – but with no luck.

Once again: It happened before, once, by accident. How can I now do it on purpose? It seems that this is the key to the CORRECT ANSWER.

Help! Please?

K

ken thu huongc86137616Author

Inspiring

In my original post I mentioned the difference between the cursors when the highlight tool, as shown here in yellow

is going to work on text or on an area. Here is a sketch of those cursors.

The left cursor, for text, is the only one I can get now.

The CORRECT ANSWER to this post will tell me how to get the CURSOR ON THE RIGHT WITH THE HIGHLIGHT TOOL! (That cursor, on the right, can only be my memory of what it looked like, but it's pretty close.)