Editing PDF Documents

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Detecting Text on a Scanned Document

Step 1: First, it would be a good idea to make sure the scanned image is perfectly aligned.

        Go to Document > Optimize Scanned PDF; click on the Defaults button in the lower left corner, and click ok.

        Now you're ready to detect the text.

Step 2: Go to Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR... Select All Pages and click ok.

        You're done! You should be able to highlight and copy & paste your text! *

* If there is still some text that is not able to be selected, repeat step 2.

 

Extracting Pages

Step 1: Go to Document > Extract Pages; check the box labeled Extract Pages As Separate Files and click ok.

Step 2: Select where you want the extracted pages to be saved. The extracted pages will be saved as file name 1, file name 2, etc.

 

Highlighting Text

Go to Comments > Comment & Markup Tools > Highlight Text Tool