Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

Google Chrome is rolling out a feature that allows users to copy text from scanned PDFs. This has been a long time coming. One of the most frustrating things about opening a PDF in Chrome is that ...

Copy and Paste from Adobe Reader to Other Programs PDF documents can be saved from Reader only as a copy of the PDF file or as an unformatted text file. Reader, however, enables you to copy and paste ...

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a ...

Editing PDFs is something many people need to do, but unfortunately it’s not always the easiest thing to do. The format is not designed to be easily edited, and despite a plethora of Windows and web ...

When you want to reuse the content of a PDF in Microsoft Publisher but you lack access to the file from which you produced it, you can't import the file directly into your target application.

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...

Although rare, when attempting to save a file in PDF format the PDF text content in an Adobe PDF file disappears. It occurs mostly in fillable forms where the text you enter disappears right after you ...

You may search any text file for words or phrases, except a scanned document not run through optical character reader (OCR) software. To initiate a search of a document select "Edit/Search" from the ...