Highlighting, Underlining, Selecting Text

[mcguirejw@adobeforums.com]

It seems that I cannot use any of these features in documents I created from my scanner in Adobe Acrobat 5.0. How can I get these to work? Is there a different way to scan or import these documents? I am creating them as "text only," using WinME.

These features are partly usable if the PDF file is actually an article I downloaded from a journal's website as a PDF file. But even then, the features are spotty. Text to be underlined has most, but not all, the words underlined--there seems to be no specific pattern. In fact, the underlining may not actually include an entire word but only parts of words, e.g., the 2d half of one word and the 1st half of the next. Same with the highlight tool. The Text Select Tool seems to work fine, but only with these documents that I did not create.

Any suggestions? I could not see anything helpful in the program's Help, except a reference to being sure a file is text not an image, but I am creating my PDF files as "text only".

[Fr._Watson@adobeforums.com]

It seems that I cannot use any of these features in documents I created
from my scanner in Adobe Acrobat 5.0.




The reason is most likely that you are working with scanned images. Unless a scanned image has had OCR (Optical Character Recognition) performed on it (i.e., using Capture), the image will contain no text.

I could not see anything helpful in the program's Help, except a reference
to being sure a file is text not an image, but I am creating my PDF files
as "text only".




Even if you save as "Text only", it will still not convert the image into actual text. If you read more on OCR and/or Capture, it will hopefully give you a better idea of what you need to do in order to be able to manipulate the text in your PDF's.