Reusing pdf content, Select and copy text, Select a column of text – Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended User Manual
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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Saving and exporting PDFs
Last updated 9/30/2011
Note: You can export raster images, but not vector objects.
1 Choose Advanced > Document Processing > Export All Images.
2 In the Export All Images As dialog box, choose a file format for the images.
By default, exported image files use the source filename.
3 Click Settings.
4 In the Export All Images As Settings dialog box, select the file settings, color management, and conversion settings
for the file type.
5 For Exclude Images Smaller Than, select the smallest size of image to be extracted. Select No Limit to extract all
images.
6 Click OK. In the Export All Images As dialog box, click Save or OK.
Reusing PDF content
Select and copy text
The Select tool
lets you select horizontal and vertical text or columns of text in a PDF. You can use the Copy and
Paste commands to copy the selected text into another application. Note the following:
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If you’re unable to select text, the text may be part of an image. In Acrobat, to export image text to text that can be
selected, choose Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR.
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If the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands are unavailable when you select text, the author of the PDF may have set
restrictions against copying text.
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If the text you copy uses a font that isn’t available on your system, the font will be substituted with a close match or
a default font.
Select text by dragging from an insertion point to an end point (left) or by dragging diagonally over text (right).
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Select a column of text
1 Using the Select tool
, move the pointer toward a column of text. When the pointer changes to a vertical bar with
a box superimposed, the Select tool is in column select mode.
You can force column select mode by pressing Alt as you drag a rectangle over the column of text.
2 Drag a rectangle over the column of text. To select text in more than one column, drag from the beginning of the
text in one column to the end of text you want to select.