This command selects text on-screen. You can then execute “copy and paste” operations to transfer text bits to other applications.
Alternative: use the command Save As under the File menu of the Adobe Acrobat software to save the text from “text-image” PDF files to a text file (in the Word, RTF, HTML or Text format).
This command allows to “touch up” the text held in PDF files.
Use it to correct small recognition errors that occurred because of a very low document quality.
This command allows you to save the text from “text-image” PDF files to a text file (in the Word, RTF, HTML or Text format).
Alternative: select text on-screen with the Select Text tool on the toolbar of the Adobe Acrobat software and execute “copy and paste” operations.
The Search command finds complete words or word parts in the current PDF document or in all PDF documents in a folder. Acrobat then looks for the word by sequentially reading every word on every page in the file(s).
The Search command also allows you to perform advanced and fast searching on a collection of indexed PDF documents.
Search for a simple word or phrase
Expand your search query by using wildcard characters and Boolean operators
Use the search options to refine your search further
Warning: index-based searching implies that the “full-text” index was created for a collection of PDF files (with the command Catalog of the Adobe Acrobat software). A “full-text” index is an alphabetized list of every word used in a document or a series of documents.
Advantage: index-based searching is much faster than sequential reading. Acrobat goes right to the word in the list rather than progressively reading through the documents.
How it works: refer to the documentation that came with your Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat software to learn how searching works.