Acrobat Reader DC - Can't Copy Text
This seems to happen a lot. I love to copy and paste because I am a slow typer. I am using Acrobat Reader DC. Some documents I open I cannot highlight text and copy. When I try Acrobat will only let me enclose the text in a box and copy/paste doesn't work.
Here is the example I just hit. I scanned a page from a phone book with the HP Scanner Software. 300dpi. Saved type was a PDF and it save it as a PDF but when I open it I cannot copy and paste. It won't let me highlight stuff. Just enclose it in a box.
So I am either not using Acrobat Reader right or I am not scanning it right. Even though it saved it as a PDF Acrobat is treating it as a picture with no identifiable text to copy. Ideas?
Here is the example I just hit. I scanned a page from a phone book with the HP Scanner Software. 300dpi. Saved type was a PDF and it save it as a PDF but when I open it I cannot copy and paste. It won't let me highlight stuff. Just enclose it in a box.
So I am either not using Acrobat Reader right or I am not scanning it right. Even though it saved it as a PDF Acrobat is treating it as a picture with no identifiable text to copy. Ideas?
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I use an HP Scanner with HP Scanner software and it has an option for Searchable PDF. That is why I suggested that. If that is not available to you, then OCR is probably the other way to go. I have IRIS OCR installed and I can invoke that from the HP Printer Application.
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The "Searchable PDF" option is only there if I.R.I.S. OCR is installed. Otherwise it is not an option. Even than the I.R.I.S. OCR is really, really poor. I installed ABBYY and the copy and paste worked fine.
Thanks for the update and I was happy to help.
Yes, ABBYY FineReader is excellent OCR — right up there in accuracy with OmniPage (which is the OCR engine built into PaperPort and Power PDF). Regards, Joe
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